Section 102

A person is not prevented from filing a writ for divorce, or the court from pronouncing a judgment of divorce, by reason only that the plaintiff or defendant has at any time been granted a judicial separation upon the same or substantially the same facts as those proved in support of the writ for divorce.

On any such writ for divorce, the court may treat the judgment of judicial separation as sufficient proof of the adultery, desertion or other ground on which it was granted, but the court must not grant a judgment of divorce without receiving evidence from the plaintiff.

For the purposes of any such writ for divorce, a period of desertion immediately preceding the institution of proceedings for a judgment of judicial separation is, if the parties have not resumed cohabitation and the judgment has been continuously in force since it was granted, deemed immediately to precede the filing of the writ for divorce.