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Divorce Laws: Either

Connecticut.-Fraudulent contract; wilful desertion for three years, with total neglect of duty; absent seven years unheard of; habitual intemperance; intolerable cruelty; sentence to imprisonment for life; any infamous crime involving a violation of conjugal duty and punishable by imprisonment in State prison. Either party may remarry; previous residence required three years. Delaware. Desertion three years; habitual drunkenness; physical incapacity; treme cruelty; conviction of felony; parties married under age; fraud and force in procuring marriage; wilful neglect of husband to provide for wife for three years. Either party may remarry, but party guilty of adultery shall not marry the person with whom crime was committed. No statutory provision as to previous residence.

District of Columbia.-Insanity at marriage; incapacity; habitual drunkenness; cruel and abusive treatment endangering life or health; wilful desertion for two years. Divorces from bed and board may be granted for cruel treatment and reasonable apprehension of bodily harm.