What are the grounds for a contested divorce?
• Adultery • Habitual drunkenness or abuse of narcotic drugs that has worsened since the marriage • Living separately and apart for two years with no minor children • Willful or malicious desertion for one full year without a reasonable cause • Conviction of a felony and sentencing to the penitentiary or conviction of an infamous crime • Pregnancy of the wife by another before the marriage without the husband’s knowledge • Willful refusal to move to Tennessee with your spouse and living apart for two years • Malicious attempt upon the life of the other • Lack of reconciliation for two years after the entry of a decree of separate maintenance • Impotency and sterility • Bigamy • Cruel and inhuman treatment (which may also be referred to as “inappropriate marital conduct”) • Indignities offered by one spouse to the other • Abandonment of the wife in which the husband refuses or neglects to provide for her
