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Divorce Laws: Residence
Residence of two years required. No statutory provision as to remarrying. Florida. Extreme cruelty; habitual indulgence in violent and ungovernable temper; physical incapicity; habitual intemperance for one year; wilful, obstinate and continued desertion for one year; also to any person who has been a resident of Florida for two years whose husband or wife has procured a divorce in any other State or country.
Previous residence required, two years. Either party can marry. Georgia.-Mental incapacity at time of marriage; physical incapacity; force, menaces, threats, duress and fraud in procuring marriage; wife with child at time of marriage not by or with knowledge of husband; wilful desertion three years; conviction for offence involving moral turpitude, and under which party has been sentenced to two years or longer; cruel treatment; habitual intoxication. Concurrent verdict of two juries at different terms of court are necessary in procuring a divorce. No statutory provision as to previous residence or remarrying. Idaho.-Extreme cruelty; wilful desertion, wilful neglect and habitual intemperance, each for one year; conviction of felony; physical incapacity. Residence required, six months; either party may remarry. Illinois. Wilful desertion two years; attempt by either party on life of the other; extreme and repeated cruelty; physical incapacity; conviction of felony or other infamous crime.
Residence required, one year. No statutory provision as to remarriage. Indiana. Incapacity at time of marriage; abandonment two years; cruel and inhuman treatment; habitual drunkenness; failure of husband to support wife for two years; conviction of infamous crime.
Previous residence, two years; either party may marry.
Iowa. Wilful desertion two years; conviction of felony; habitual drunkenness contracted after marriage; inhuman treatment such as to endanger life; wife with child at time of marriage not by or with knowledge of husband; physical incapacity; insanity at time of marriage.
Previous residence, one year. No statutory provision as to remarriage.
Kansas. Abandonment one year; physical incapacity; wife with child at time of marriage not by or with knowledge of husband; extreme cruelty; fraudulent contract; habitual drunkenness; gross neglect of duty; conviction of and imprisonment for felony.
Residence required, one year; parties may remarry at once unless appeal is taken, and then not until 30 days after final judgment on the appeal.
Kentucky.-Living apart without cohabitation for five years; physical incapacity; abandonment for one year; condemnation for felony; concealment of immoral disease; force, duress or fraud in obtaining marriage; uniting with religious society which forbids husband and wife to cohabit. Also to wife, for husband's confirmed habits of intoxication, with neglect to provide, and habitually behaving toward her in such cruel and inhuman manner as to destroy her peace and happiness; cruel beating or injury, indicating an outrageous temper and endangering her life; also to husband for pregnancy of wife at time of marriage not by him or with his knowledge; habitual drunkenness on her part of not less than one year.
Either party may remarry; residence required, one year.
Louisiana. Habitual intemperance excess; cruel treatment or outrages, if of such a nature as to render living together insupportable; condemnation to an ignominious punishment; desertion for five years, having been summoned to return within one year of filing petition; fugitive from justice; attempt on life of the other. No divorce shall be granted except for adultery, except a decree of separation shall have been previously had and parties have lived apart one year.
On divorce for adultery, the guilty party shall not marry the person with whom crime was committed; woman cannot remarry for ten months after marriage is dissolved; no statutory provision as to previous residence.
Maine. Extreme cruelty; utter desertion for three years; gross and confirmed habits of intoxication; physical incapacity; cruel and abusive treatment; failure of husband to provide for wife; sentence of imprisonment for life.
Previous residence, one year; either party may marry.
Maryland. Any cause which would render marriage void ab-initio; abandonment three years; woman guilty before marriage of illicit carnal intercourse unknown to husband; physical incapacity.
Residence required, two years.. Where divorce is for adultery, court may decree that guilty party shall not marry during life of the other. Massachusetts. - Extreme cruelty; utter desertion for three years; gross and confirmed habits of intoxication with liquors, by opium or other drugs; cruel and abusive treatment; husband wantonly and cruelly refusing to provide for wife; where either party has joined religious society that professes to believe relation of husband and wife unlawful, and has continued with that society for three years, refusing for that time to cohabit; sentenced to hard labor for life or five years or more, and phy-- sical incapacity.