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Divorce Laws: Required

Chancellor in making decree may decide whether defendant shall marry again or not. Required residence in State one year.

Arizona. Excesses or cruel treatment by personal violence or otherwise ; abandonment for six months; habitual intemperance; wilful neglect on part of husband to provide; conviction of felony. Required residence six months; either party may marry again. Arkansas. Wilful desertion one year; conviction of felony or other infamous crime; physical incapacity; habitual drunkenness one year; cruel and barbarous treatment as to endanger life; indignities to the person such as to render condition intolerable; permanently or incurably insane. Required residence one year; either party may remarry. California.-Extreme cruelty; wilful desertion, neglect and habitual drunkenness, either continued or one year; conviction of felony. Previous residence, one year; either can remarry.

Colorado.-Wilful desertion one year, or has departed from State without intention of returning; physical incapacity; failure on part of husband to provide for wife for one year; habitual drunkenness one year; extreme cruelty; conviction of felony.

Previous residence, one year; either may remarry.