Grounds for Divorce in Georgia: 1. Intermarriage by persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity; 2. Mental incapacity at the time of the marriage; 3. Impotency at the time of the marriage; 4. Force, menace, duress, or fraud in obtaining the marriage; 5. Pregnancy of the wife by a man other than the husband, at the time of the marriage, unknown to the husband; 6. Adultery in either of the parties after marriage; 7. Willful and continued desertion by either of the parties for the term of one year; 8. The conviction of either party for an offense involving moral turpitude, under which he is sentenced to imprisonment in a penal institution for a term of two years or longer; 9. Habitual intoxication; 10. Cruel treatment, which shall consist of the willful infliction of pain, bodily or mental, upon the complaining party, such as reasonably justifies apprehension of danger to life, limb, or health; 11. Incurable mental illness; 12. Habitual drug addiction, which shall consist of addiction to any controlled substance; 13. The marriage is irretrievably broken. Under no circumstances shall the court grant a divorce on this ground until not less than 30 days from the date of service on the respondent.Georgia
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