divorce grounds
Legal marriage-ending reasons
Divorce grounds are the legally recognized reasons for ending a marriage.
Traditional grounds include adultery, cruelty, abandonment, and imprisonment.
Many jurisdictions now allow no-fault divorce, where irreconcilable differences or irretrievable breakdown suffice: They cited irreconcilable differences as grounds for divorce.
The specific grounds available vary by jurisdiction and affect proceedings like property division and custody.
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- irreconcilable differencesConflicts that cannot harmonize
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- emotional neglectFailure to meet feeling-needs
- incompatibilityUnable to function together
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