Remove a Spouse from an Individual Constituent

If a constituent has a spouse relationship, you can remove the relationship such as due to divorce. After you remove a spouse relationship, it no longer appears on the Relationships tab on the individual’s constituent record. If the constituent household does not remain intact, you can also dissolve the household.

If you dissolve the household at the time you remove the spouse, you must select a reason for the change. Before you can update the household’s status, a user with the appropriate security permissions must define reasons in the Dissolved Reason code table in Administration.

For information about how to add reason codes, see the Code Tables section of the help file.

Note: After you remove a spouse relationship, the Add spouse task appears on the constituent record so you can add a spouse relationship as necessary. For information about how to add a spouse, see Add a Spouse for an Individual Constituent.

  1. Open the constituent record of the individual for which to remove the spouse relationship. For information about how to open a constituent record, see Constituent Search.

  2. Under Tasks, select Remove spouse. The Remove spouse screen appears.

  3. Select the new relationships for the constituent and the former spouse, such as ex-husband and ex-wife, and the date the spouse relationship ended.

  4. If the constituent and spouse are members of a household, select whether to dissolve the household. If you select Dissolve the household, select the reason to dissolve the household, such as divorce. For information about the items on this screen, see Remove Spouse Screen

    Note: You must include a reason when you dissolve a household. For information about how to add codes to the Dissolved Reason code table, see the Code Tables section of the help file.

  5. Select Save. The Update contact information page appears. On this page, you can manage the contact information for each constituent previously in the spouse relationship. For information about this page, see Update Contact Information Page.