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Divorce Laws: Virginia

Virginia. Sentenced to confinement in penitentiary; conviction of infamous. offence before marriage unknown to the other; fugitive from justice for two years; wilful desertion for five years; wife with child at marriage not by or with knowledge of husband; wife a prostitute before marriage unknown to husband, and physical incapacity. Divorces from bed and board are granted for cruelty; reasonable apprehension of bodily harm; abandonment or desertion. Court may decree that guilty party shall not marry again without permission of court; residence of one year required.

Washington.-Consent to marriage obtained by fraud or force; abandonment one year; cruel treatment or personal indignities rendering life burdensome ; habitual drunkenness, or neglect or refusal to provide; imprisonment in penitentiary, or any other cause deemed by the court sufficient; chronic mania or dementia of either party for ten years.

Residence of one year required; either party may marry again. West Virginia. -Confinement in penitentiary; infamous crime prior to marriage unknown to the other; wilful desertion for three years; wife with child at mar-- riage not by or with knowledge of husband; wife immoral before marriage unknown Divorces to husband; husband notoriously licentious, and physical incapacity. from bed and board are granted for cruel and inhuman treatment; reasonable apprehension of bodily harm; abandonment; desertion; habitual drunkenness. Residence of one year required. No statutory provision as to remarriage. Wisconsin.-Imprisonment for life or three or more years; physical incapacity; wilful desertion for one year; cruel and inhuman treatment by personal violence; habitual drunkenness for one year where the parties have voluntary lived apart five years; neglect to provide.

One year's residence required; either party can remarry. Wyoming. Conviction of felony and sentenced therefor; wilful desertion for one year; habitual drunkenness; neglect on part of husband to provide for one year; such indignities as to render condition intolerable; husband guilty of such conduct as to constitute him a vagrant; physical incapacity; conviction of felony or infamous crime before marriage without the other's knowledge; wife with child at marriage not by or with the knowledge of husband.

Residence of six months required; no statutory provision as to remarrying.