Grounds for Divorce
Grounds for Divorce
Illinois had been, for many years, a “fault state” when it came to obtaining a Judgment for Dissolution (a divorce). To actually get divorced, there had to be evidence that one party was impotent, one party was already married, adultery, desertion (abandonment), habitual drunkenness, “gross and confirmed habits” brought about by excessive drug use, attempted to take the other spouse’s life by poison or showing malice, conviction of a felony, or infected the other spouse with sexually transmitted disease.
While litigants still have the right to pursue a divorce by proving one of the above grounds for divorce, Illinois has added a modified, no-fault ground to the divorce act (Irreconcilable Differences).
* See No Fault Divorce
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