Grounds for Divorce in New Hampshire

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

- separation for two years (without consent)
- irreconcilable differences which have caused irremediable breakdown of marriage
- impotency
- extreme cruelty
- conviction (in any state or federal district, of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year, and actual imprisonment under such conviction
- adultery
- treatment such as to seriously injure health or seriously endanger reason
- absence (unheard-from for two years)
- habitual drunkenness for two years
- joining any religious sect or society which professes to believe relation of husband and wife unlawful, and refusal to cohabit for six months
- abandonment and refusal for two years together to cohabit
- willful absence of husband without making suitable provision for wife's support and maintenance for two years
- wife of any citizen has gone to reside beyond limits of this state, and remained absent and separate from husband for two years together without his consent, and without returning to claim her marriage rights
- wife of any alien or citizen of any other state, living separate, has resided in state, for two years together, her husband having left U.S. with intention of becoming a citizen of some foreign country, and not having during that period come into this state to claim his marital rights, and not having made suitable provision for his wife's support and maintenance

Code: 458, 7, 7-a
Information has *NOT* been checked against statutes

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