separated wife
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdetachedandwife
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detached
adjective
uk/dɪˈtætʃt/us/dɪˈtætʃt/
separated:
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wife
noun[C]
uk/waɪf/us/waɪf/
the woman that you are ...
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(Definition ofdetachedandwifefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Increases for aseparatedwifeor children are, however, payable only if the claimant is already making the requisite contributions to their maintenance.
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It is distasteful that this should apply even to theseparatedwifeor the wholly independent child.
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In such a case theseparatedwifemay be eligible for an allowance as a dependant.
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That is a different situation, because we are dealing with aseparatedwifefrom a previous marriage.
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They may be called the main widow, the pensioner's widow, the gratuity man's widow, and theseparatedwifewidow.
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But there may have been only a private arrangement between the man and hisseparatedwife.
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Even though subject to a means test, there is insurance provision for theseparatedwife.
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It would be unjust that where aseparatedwifegoes to live with another man, the original husband should be forced to contribute to her.
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This has to do with an invalidity or retirement pensioner who can draw a dependency increase for aseparatedwife.
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The inference was— and rightly so—that the court order had been lost; and that, therefore, no allowance could be made to theseparatedwife.
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I have been asked a question about theseparatedwifewhere there is no court order.
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Theseparatedwifegoing out to work might earn £6 a week, a typical woman's wage and certainly not a handsome one.
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In conclusion, it has been my experience that the courts take the tax position of aseparatedwifeinto consideration in fixing the amount of the order.
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Arrangements are now being made—they have not been made hitherto—to deal with another most complicated subject: the deserted orseparatedwife.
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This often helps tremendously because maintenance has a way of being very erratic in reaching a deserted orseparatedwife.
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The real trouble in the case of theseparatedwifewas that she did not get the amount which had been granted to her by the court.
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The first £1,000 of maintenance payment to the divorced orseparatedwifeis not treated as investment income.
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To my mind that is a very much harder case than the case of theseparatedwife, and it is one with which one very often meets.
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However, she is left heart-broken after she learns that her boss has gotten back together with hisseparatedwife.
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Litigation by creditors who sued men for their separated wives' debts often turned on whether the wife had bought unnecessary items.
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