Current through Chapter 61 of the 2024 Legislative Session and 2024 Executive Orders 125, 133 through 135
Section 25.24.050 - Grounds for divorceA divorce may be granted for any of the following grounds:
(1) failure to consummate the marriage at the time of the marriage and continuing at the commencement of the action;(3) conviction of a felony;(4) wilful desertion for a period of one year;(5) either (A) cruel and inhuman treatment calculated to impair health or endanger life;(B) personal indignities rendering life burdensome; or(C) incompatibility of temperament;(6) habitual gross drunkenness contracted since marriage and continuing for one year prior to the commencement of the action;(7)[Repealed, Sec. 68 ch 127 SLA 1974].(8) incurable mental illness when the spouse has been confined to an institution for a period of at least 18 months immediately preceding the commencement of the action; the status as to the support and maintenance of the mentally ill person is not altered in any way by the granting of the divorce;(9) addiction of either party, subsequent to the marriage, to the habitual use of opium, morphine, cocaine, or a similar drug.