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Grounds for divorce in Savannah GA

To get a divorce based on one of the twelve “fault” grounds, one must demonstrate that there was some wrongdoing by one of the spouses. For example, one fault ground is adultery. Adultery in Georgia includes heterosexual as well as homosexual relations between a married individual and another individual. Desertion is another “fault” ground for divorce in Georgia. A divorce may be granted on the grounds that an individual has deserted his or her spouse willfully for at least a year.

Mental or physical cruel treatment, marriage between persons who are too closely related, mental incapacity at the time of marriage, impotency at the time of marriage, force or fraud in obtaining the marriage, pregnancy of the wife unknown to the husband at the time of the marriage, conviction and imprisonment for certain crimes, habitual intoxication or drug addiction, and mental illness are the other “fault” grounds.

Georgia has the option of “no-fault” divorce. In a no-fault divorce, you do not have to prove that your spouse is to be blamed for your decision to seek divorce, you merely inform the judge that you and your spouse have “irreconcilable differences” or have suffered an “irremediable breakdown” of your marriage.

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