Grounds for Divorce in Tennessee

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

- separation for two years, no children
- irreconcilable differences: marital dissolution agreement of the parties and no contest or denial of defendant; complaint cannot be heard until 90 days after filing if there are unmarried minor children or 60 days after filing if no such children.
- natural continuous impotency at time of marriage
- bigamy
- adultery
- willful or malicious desertion or absence for one year without reasonable cause
- conviction of an infamous crime
- conviction of a crime which is a felony under the laws of this state and sentence to the penitentiary
- attempts on life of other by means showing malice
- refusal by wife or husband to remove to this state, without reasonable cause, and willfully absenting herself or himself for two years
- wife was pregnant at time of marriage by another without husband's knowledge
- habitual drunkenness or abuse of narcotic drugs contracted after marriage
- inappropriate marital conduct
- husband's offer such indignities to wife's person as to render her condition intolerable and thereby forced her to withdraw
- husband has abandoned wife
- husband's refusal or neglect to provide for wife.
Code: 36-4-101, 36-4-102, 36-4-103

Information has been checked against state statutes as of 1997

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