What are the legal grounds for filing a divorce?
The following grounds for divorce are recognized in the state of Georgia: • Marriage between close blood relations. • Mental incapacity at the time of the marriage. • Impotency at the time of the marriage. • Force, menace, duress, or fraud in obtaining the marriage. • Pregnancy of the wife by a man other than the husband, at the time of the marriage, unknown to the husband. • Adultery in either of the parties after marriage. • The conviction of either party for an offense involving moral turpitude, under which he is sentenced to imprisonment in a penal institution for a term of two years or longer. • Habitual intoxication. • Cruel treatment, which shall consist of the willful infliction of pain, bodily or mental, upon the complaining party, that reasonably justifies apprehension of danger to life, limb, or health. • Incurable mental illness. • Habitual drug addiction, consisting of addiction to any controlled substance as defined in Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 16; (13) • Irretriev
