Sec. 25.24.050. Grounds for divorce.
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Sec. 25.24.050. Grounds for divorce.
A divorce may be granted for any of the following grounds:
(1)failure to consummate the marriage at the time of the marriage and continuing at the commencement of the action;
(2)adultery;
(3)conviction of a felony;
(4)wilful desertion for a period of one year;
(5)either
(A)cruel and inhuman treatment calculated to impair health or endanger life;
(B)personal indignities rendering life burdensome; or
(C)incompatibility of temperament;
(6)habitual gross drunkenness contracted since marriage and continuing for one year prior to the commencement of the action;
(7)[Repealed, § 68 ch 127 SLA 1974.]
(8)incurable mental illness when the spouse has been confined to an institution for a period of at least 18 months immediately preceding the commencement of the action; the status as to the support and maintenance of the mentally ill person is not altered in any way by the granting of the divorce;
(9)addiction of either party, subsequent to the marriage, to the habitual use of opium, morphine, cocaine, or a similar drug.