Separations in scotland were they recorded?

Perhaps someone could point me in the right direction.
My Grandparents separated probably in the 1930s, whilst my Grandfather was
working in Dundee at The Palace Theatre.
John Richard Bell (1894) and Evelyn Katrine Lax (1891) married at Redcar in
1920
Would there be any record of this that I could look up? If so where would I
look?

Charles Ellson...

Unfortunately you have two jurisdictions to play with as any divorce
(if there was one) would depend on the domicile of the parties
involved at the time of the divorce; whether in Scotland or in England
records of that age will now be in the relevant national archive, the
GRO in Scotland has only kept a register of divorces from 1984 with
AFAIAA no English equivalent available. Originally, where a marriage
and ensuing divorce both occurred in Scotland a note was made on the
original marriage record but I can't at present find the date that
this practice ceased; if any divorce was in England then no official
record would have been made in Scotland (and vice versa).
Feeding "Lax" to the NAS index brings up a divorce for Katrine H Lax
or Bennett in 1960 but no match for yours so it looks like you'll have
to try the National Archives in Kew - only one "Bell" divorce shows up
there via the online index (VM and JG in 1945 within record class J
77) but I'm not sure if all relevant records are indexed on-line.

Don Aitken...

Copy decrees for all divorces in England and Wales since 1858 are
obtainable from the Principal Registry of the Family Division - see
the Court Service website. TNA has the court files, if they have been
preserved, which only a minority have been. Their Research Guide
"Divorce after 1858" explains all this.

I presume that the same would apply to decrees of judicial separation,
but, of course, the term "separation" by itelf could also mean an
informal separation without any judicial process. These were always
much more common; judicial separation required proof of "fault" in the
same way as divorce, and was mainly used by those with a religious
objection to divorce.

Nicki