Zu Scheiden

1. (transitive, dated, literary) to separate
2. (intransitive or reflexive, dated, literary) to leave one another; to part; to be separated; to be divided
3. (transitive) to dissolve (a marriage); to divorce (a couple)
4. (transitive, with lassen) to have (a marriage) dissolved
5. (reflexive, with lassen) to divorce (one's spouse); to get a divorce (from one's spouse)

Usage notes

• The perfect auxiliary is haben in transitive and reflexive uses, and always in constructions with lassen. In intransitive uses, the auxiliary is sein, but such instances are rare in contemporary German. Note that in a phrase like Sie ist geschieden (“She's divorced”), the verb sein is the copula, not the perfect auxiliary.
• The present participle scheidend has an idiomatic sense “retiring, resigning, about to be replaced”: der scheidende Vorstandsvorsitzende — “the retiring CEO”.