Grounds for Divorce in New Jersey

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

- separation, provided that husband and wife have lived separate and apart in different habitations for at least 18 consecutive months, and there is no reasonable prospect of reconciliation (which shall be presumed after 18-month period)
- willful and continued desertion for 12 months
- adultery
- extreme cruelty (provided that no complaint for divorce on this ground shall be filed until after three months from date of last act of cruelty complained of, but this does not apply to counterclaim)
- voluntarily induced addiction or habituation to any narcotic drug or habitual drunkenness for 12 or more consecutive months subsequent to marriage and immediately before filing of complaint
- institutionalization for mental illness for 24 or more consecutive months subsequent to marriage and next preceding filing of complaint
- imprisonment of defendant for 18 or more consecutive months after marriage (provided that if action commenced after defendant released, parties have not resumed cohabitation
- deviant sexual conduct voluntarily performed by defendant without consent of plaintiff
Code: 2, 3

Information has been checked against state statutes as of 1997

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