Grounds for Divorce in Alaska

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

- marriage is irretrievably broken
- failure to consummate at time of marriage and continuing at commencement of action
- adultery
- conviction of felony
- willful desertion for one year
- cruelty
- incompatibility of temperament
- habitual gross drunkenness begun since marriage and continuing for one year
- incurable mental illness (period of 18 months)
- addiction after marriage to habitual use of opium, morphine, cocaine or a similar drug

Code: 24.24, 25.24.050, 25.24.200, 25-312

Information has been checked against state statutes as of 1997

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