What are Grounds for Divorce in Tennessee?
There are 14 potential causes for divorce in Tennessee. They include: (1) if either party was at the time of marriage and still is naturally impotent and incapable of procreation; (2) if either party knowingly entered into a second marriage when already married; (3) adultery; (4) willful or malicious desertion without reasonable cause for at least one whole year; (5) a conviction of a crime that makes that party infamous; (6) conviction of felony and being sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary; (7) if either party has attempted to take the life of the other; (8) refusal to move to Tennessee with a spouse, without reasonable cause, and willfully being absent from the spouse residing in Tennessee for at least 2 years; (9) the woman being pregnant at the time of the marriage by another person without the knowledge of the husband; (10) habitual drunkenness or abuse of narcotic drugs when the spouse contracted the habit after the marriage; (11) a spouse being guilty of cruel and inhu
