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 Complaint for Divorce must declare the appropriate Idaho 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:

Divorces may be granted for any of the following causes:

1. Irreconcilable differences.

2. When married persons have heretofore lived or shall hereafter live separate and apart for a period of five (5) years or more without cohabitation .

1. Adultery.

2. Extreme cruelty.

3. Willful desertion.

4. Willful neglect.

5. Habitual intemperance.

6. Conviction of felony

7. When either the husband or wife has become permanently insane.

(Idaho Code - Title 32 - Chapters: 603, 610)

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