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Grounds for Divorce: Utah
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 Utah 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 court may decree a dissolution of the marriage according the following grounds:
No-Fault:
1. Irreconcilable differences of the marriage;
2. usband and wife have lived separately under a decree of separate maintenance of any state for three consecutive years without cohabitation.
Fault:
(a) Impotence;
(b) Adultery;
(c) Willful desertion for more than one year;
(d) Willful neglect;
(e) Habitual drunkenness;
(f) Conviction for a felony;
(g) Cruel treatment;
(h) incurable insanity.
(Utah Code - Sections: 30-3-1)
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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