Some people don't understand this, and some of them end up in "entanglements" because of it. Since I was a kid, I've known difference between legal separation and divorce. Separated couples are still legally married. I repeat, separated couples are still legally married. They're still legally married. Period. They're just living separated lives until they come to a final decision about their marriage.
Only if/when married couples finalize their divorce do they become divorced. Separation isn't divorce. Legal separation isn't the same thing as being unmarried. Divorced means that the individuals that made-up that married couple are legally single again.
Please don't confuse breaking-up in dating for divorce of marriage; the closest equivalent to legal separation is a breakup, not a divorce. Married couples, even when in legal separation, are still legally married until their filed divorce proceedings are finalized, until one spouse is widowed, or until the marriage is annulled. Marriage is a lot more than a long-term relationship; it's a union binding two lives together in love, in family, in property and finances, in the law, and in God.
https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/legal-separation-vs-divorce
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