GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE: NO-FAULT or FAULT ?

No-Fault Based Grounds:
(1) Irreconcilable differences

(2) living separate and apart without cohabitation for 2 years when there are no minor children.

Fault Based Grounds:
(1) Impotence;

(2) adultery;

(3) Incarceration or felony conviction;

(4) alcohol and drug addiction;

(5) wife is pregnant by another at the time of marriage without husband’s knowledge;

(6) willful desertion for one year;

(7) bigamy;

(8) endangering the life of the spouse;

(9) conviction of an infamous crime;

(10) refusing to move to Tennessee with a spouse and willfully absenting oneself from a new residence for 2 years;

(11) cruel and inhuman treatment;

(12) indignities that make the spouse’s life intolerable; and

(13) abandonment, neglect, or banning the spouse from the home.