Effective: October 6, 1994 Latest Legislation: House Bill 571 - 120th General Assembly The court of common pleas may grant divorces for the following causes:(A) Either party had a husband or wife living at the time of the marriage from which the divorce is sought;(B) Willful absence of the adverse party for one year;(C) Adultery;(D) Extreme cruelty;(E) Fraudulent contract;(F) Any gross neglect of duty;(G) Habitual drunkenness;(H) Imprisonment of the adverse party in a state or federal correctional institution at the time of filing the complaint;(I) Procurement of a divorce outside this state, by a husband or wife, by virtue of which the party who procured it is released from the obligations of the marriage, while those obligations remain binding upon the other party;(J) On the application of either party, when husband and wife have, without interruption for one year, lived separate and apart without cohabitation;(K) Incompatibility, unless denied by either party.A plea of res judicata or of recrimination with respect to any provision of this section does not bar either party from obtaining a divorce on this ground.
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