There are certain situations when you are facing a divorce case in which you and/or your wife may decide to stop the dissolution of marriage entirely.
This means ceasing the divorce case altogether.
Typically, this is because you both decide that you want to work things out.
But in other cases, you can have your divorce case stopped to essentially create more work for your wife in the long run if she wants to continue on with the divorce herself.
In most cases, in order to dismiss the divorce, you need to sign and file an agreed Order of Dismissal for your divorce case.
When doing this, it will be filed with your case, and any and all orders, including temporary orders and orders for child support and custody.
In most cases, you and your wife will have to agree on having the divorce case dismissed.
However, there is a way to have it dismissed without your wife's permission.
If you were the one that filed the initial Petition for Dissolution of Marriage, and your wife did not file a counter petition against yours, you can technically cease the continuation of the dissolution of marriage without your wife's approval.
This makes any temporary orders she may have had against you null and void, and if she wanted to continue on with the divorce case, she would be responsible for starting it, and starting it from scratch.
This is a good way to start from scratch if there had been issues during the case that weren't necessarily in your favor.