If you or your spouse serves in the armed forces, there are many pressures on your relationship, whether it's a marriage or a civil partnership. Sadly, long separations and other difficulties can lead to the breakdown of relationships; and if that day comes, you'll need expert advice to help negotiate the challenges of a military divorce. As you might expect, the law regarding the end of the marriage itself is the same as for any civilian couple, in that the only grounds for a divorce is the irretrievable breakdown of marriage presented through a statement of irretrievable breakdown.