Questão jurídica principal
Whether the lower court properly limited the proceedings to the divorce issue and examined the two-year separation period as a preliminary question.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The procedural limitation was understood as a preliminary determination of whether the statutory two-year separation requirement was met.
Fundamentação extraída
Art. 125 lit. a CPC allows a court to limit proceedings to individual questions or claims. Here, the parties had agreed to a preliminary clarification of the separation duration, and the wording of the lower court's order had to be read in light of the procedural history and the purpose of procedural simplification.