PENYELESAIAN PERCERAIAN MELALUI PUTUSAN VERSTEK DALAM PERKARA No. 194/Pdt.G/2023/PA.Kab.Mlg

The main task of every husband and wife is to fulfill each other to improve their personality, to achieve prosperity both from the material and spiritual side. However, in reality, people who marry sometimes do not find the happiness and harmony that every couple hopes for. Various arguments and differences of opinion between partners cause disputes. When there are endless arguments in the household, so that harmony is no longer felt, it can become a burden to maintain a marriage. This research was conducted to determine the implementation of the settlement of divorce case No. 194/Pdt. G/2023/PA.Kab.Mlg which was completed by default (verstek). The author conducted research using empirical juridical methods which are known as research that goes directly into the field by deepening the existing legal regulations in Indonesia which are what actually occur in the social order of life. In the process of resolving this case, it can be said that there is a trial that is quite unique when compared to the process of resolving talak divorce cases in general. In general, we can see that there are several series of trial agendas with different trial objectives in each agenda, such as a separate initial trial, a separate evidentiary trial, or a separate conclusion trial. However, what happened in the process of resolving the divorce divorce case with number No. 194/Pdt. G/2023/PA.Kab.Mlg means that all trial agendas are combined into one trial agenda, namely at the initial trial. In this case, it was certain from the start that the respondent would not attend or at least care about this case. This is due to the current situation and condition of the Respondent, where the Respondent has (knowingly and intentionally) abandoned the Applicant and the children resulting from the marriage of the Applicant and Respondent in order to be with the Respondent's mistress, and the whereabouts of the Respondent are unknown even to the Respondent's own family. Therefore, indirectly, the default decision will definitely be the decision that ends the process of resolving this divorce divorce case. According to the author, there are still things that can be further harmonized between several points of related legal rules (for example, such as for divorce and divorce cases), considering the differences in the rules regulated in Indonesian law and religious law itself.