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Grounds for Divorce: Georgia
Each state has unique grounds in which a divorce may be granted by the court. When choosing the grounds for your divorce, you should always remember that you must have sufficient proof to the court that your marital situation warrants a divorce by the grounds you are requesting the divorce to be granted.
Grounds for Filing: The Petition for Divorce must declare the appropriate Georgia grounds upon which the divorce is being sought. The appropriate lawful ground will be that which the parties agree upon and can substantiate, or that which the filing spouse desires to prove to the court. The divorce grounds are as follows:
The following grounds shall be sufficient to authorize the granting of a total divorce:
No Fault:
(1) The marriage is irretrievably broken.
Fault:
(1) Intermarriage by persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity;
(2) Mental incapacity;
(3) Impotency;
(4) Duress, or fraud in obtaining the marriage;
(5) Pregnancy of the wife by a man other than the husband, at the time of the marriage, unknown to the husband;
(6) Adultery;
(7) Willful and continued desertion for one year;
(8) Imprisonment for a term of two years or longer;
(9) Habitual intoxication;
(10) Cruel treatment;
(11) Incurable mental illness.
(12) Habitual drug addiction.
(Georgia Code - Sections: 19-5-3)
If you do not fall under any of the above mentioned grounds for divorce/dissolution, you most likely should consider trying to save your marriage. Many spouses find that they do not meet the requirements of a waiting period, which can be very frustrating, but it is these waiting periods that are in effect in order to help prevent rash decisions to terminate a marriage.
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