Originally Posted by
LexieCat 
You might want to check with your lawyer to be certain, but as far as I know, once you are separated (especially with a legal document), you are free to date or do anything you want to short of actually marrying someone. I lived with people during the separations preceding both of my divorces being final.
Obviously you aren't rushing into anything like that, but I don't believe you are doing anything legally or morally improper when you have a legal separation and a pending divorce.
Yup - totally free to date-- not free to marry, not free to change my name but legally speaking, no problem with dating. Not sure if it's that way in all states, but mine it is... Not that I intend right now to date (I can't even comprehend ever trying to introduce that idea to my girls) but if he decides he is going to drag this out for the full 2 yrs he has to continue contesting it, I at least don't have to put my life on hold forever....