@JeanDP Bashing France is, sorry to say, not much of a sport. Your knowledge of French history is rather lacking. True to form, you post nonsense then react with trollish characterizations when presented with facts. Here are more facts:
French military deaths were .5% of the population including resistance fighters. US military deaths were .3% of the population.
Germany advanced into Western European countries in may of 1939. France signed and armistice with Germany in June 1940 after Paris fell.
JeanDP, it was you that introduced France into this thread. You, after a snarky comment, posted statements, ignorant statements, about the military prowess of France. Correcting your comments is not bashing France.
Me being English, I have to say I do love a good French bashing every now and then lol.
Not much of a welcome to Kunming, I would say.
Geezer, France fought the entire war. The US entered at the last second then claimed total victory, as they do with many wars.
Another trollish inaccurate statement.
@JeanDP
Just a suggestion. Let it go.
The question is about divorce, but everybody's into seeing everything in terms of nations. Granted, both laws and customs differ according to culture and nationality, but it has little to do with French military history.
I've done one ... if it's mutual a divorce is very easy. As I always say, "the best 8元 I ever spent!". If it's not mutual then your friend holds the cards. Why? Unless he wants to get married again in China (not required, he can do it out of the country even if a new spouse is Chinese), he is basically sorted. Whereas, his current wife is screwed on re-marrying until she comes to the divorce table.
Best advice: change phone numbers, explain the situation and willingness to execute a divorce by email, explain she is fucked if she ever wants to remarry unless she agrees, explain you are leaving china in (x) months and this will stay with her permanently unless she enters a long and painful legal process of single-partner divorce, explain no further discussion will be entered in to, explain willingness will be absolved in the case anyone else is present, and wait for an email reply indicating the current wife is willing to partake.
PS. @Dazzer's suggestion you can divorce overseas is wrong. The only paperwork is here in China, it has to be done here in China.
The suggestion of a lawyer is not very useful if there are no jointly held assets and no children, and you already basically holding all the cards as I posted above, there is no point in wasting money, time and pain on lawyers.
The suggestion of going to <place full of raving relatives> is not useful either. State clearly you are not doing that but that if paperwork must be provided for you to sign you are happy to do it <before x date> via <email> then <courier>, otherwise <have a nice life!>
@voltaire,
It is possible for a resident of Canada to get a divorce from a person in China. Of course that person would have to move back there and be resident for more than a year - but it's possible.
My wife's cousing (in Kunming) married a Canadian (in Toronto). The marriage eventually broke up and he did successfully file for divorce in Toronto.
@AlPage48 I think you will find that the person's actions filing in Canada affected their status in Canada and would only have been applicable in China if the paperwork, involving both parties, was translated and lodged in China. Either way, the outcome is the same: he's free and fine to re-marry overseas (in practice, not in theory) whereas she's screwed.
