Types of Divorce Statutes American Law

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Types of Divorce Statutes (American Law
Institute, Principles of the Law of Family
Dissolution) Complete no-fault (grounds,
property and alimony) Arizona Illinois New
Mexico California Indiana Nevada Colorado Iowa
Oklahoma Florida Montana Oregon Delaware
Minnesota Wisconsin Hawaii Nebraska Washingt
on No-fault except grounds Alaska Maine New
Mexico
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No-fault property, fault considered for
alimony Idaho Kentucky New Jersey Ohio Utah
Louisiana North Carolina Pennsylvania Tennessee
South Dakota West Virginia Virginia Fault has
some impact in both property and
alimony Arkansas Kansas New York Alabama Conne
cticut Georgia Maryland Massachusetts
Michigan Mississippi Missouri New
Hampshire North Dakota Rhode Island South
Carolina Texas Vermont Wyoming
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Common fault grounds (breaking of marital
promises) Adultery (sometimes also
sodomy) Cruelty (in covenant marriage states,
also toward child) Desertion Nonsupport Impris
onment for felony Habitual drunkenness or other
substance abuse Other grounds (as in annulment)
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• K.S.A. _at_ 60-1601 (1997) 60-1601. Grounds for
  divorce
• or separate maintenance.
• (a) The district court shall grant a decree
  of divorce or
• separate maintenance for any of the following
  grounds
• Incompatibility
• (2) failure to perform a material marital duty or
  
• obligation or
• (3) incompatibility by reason of mental illness
  or
• mental incapacity of one or both spouses.

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Conn. Gen. Stat. _at_ 46b-40 (c) A decree of
dissolution of a marriage or a decree of legal
separation shall be granted upon a finding that
one of the following causes has occurred (1)
The marriage has broken down irretrievably (2)
the parties have lived apart by reason of
incompatibility for a continuous period of at
least the eighteen months immediately prior to
the service of the complaint and that there is
no reasonable prospect that they will be
reconciled (3) adultery (4) fraudulent
contract (5) wilful desertion for one year with
total neglect of duty (6) seven years' absence,
during all of which period the absent party has
not been heard from (7) habitual intemperance
(8) intolerable cruelty (9) sentence to
imprisonment for life or the commission of any
infamous crime involving a violation of conjugal
duty and punishable by imprisonment for a period
in excess of one year (10) legal confinement in
a hospital or hospitals or other similar
institution or institutions, because of mental
illness, for at least an accumulated period
totaling five years of the last six years.
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Representation of Marital Bargaining over Assets
and Children
Custody Time
Husband
Assets ()
Assets ()
Wife
Custody Time
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