Divorce Law
Grounds for Divorce
The specific legal reasons — such as cruelty, adultery, or desertion — that a spouse must establish to obtain a contested divorce.
Each personal law specifies the grounds on which a contested divorce can be granted — common ones include cruelty (physical or mental), desertion for a continuous period, adultery, conversion to another religion, incurable mental disorder, and irretrievable breakdown recognised in some circumstances.
The petitioning spouse has to prove the ground pleaded with sufficient evidence; simply being unhappy in the marriage isn't, by itself, a recognised ground in most personal laws.
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