Grounds for Divorce in Alabama

Part of "Grounds for Divorce in the United States"
Family Law research by Anke Tiedt of Crouch & Crouch, Arlington, Virginia

at either party's request:
- separation (2 years)
- irretrievable breakdown of marriage
- complete incompatibility of temperament
- incapacity
- adultery
- physical violence
- abandonment for one year
- imprisonment
- insanity
- becoming addicted, habitual drunkenness or to habitual use of drugs

at husband's request:
- wife's pregnancy at time of marriage without his knowledge or agency

at wife's request:
- nonsupport for 2 years

Code: 30-2-1
Information has *NOT* been checked against statutes

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