Marriage and Divorce Laws of the WorldRingrose, Hyacinthe
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Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World
Ringrose, Hyacinthe
Divorce -- Law and legislation; Marriage law
DIVORCE.--The Superior Court has exclusive jurisdiction and may grant
absolute divorce to any man or woman for the following offences committed
by the other: Adultery, fraudulent contract, wilful desertion for three
years with total neglect of duty, seven years' absence unheard from,
habitual intemperance, intolerable cruelty, sentence to imprisonment for
life, or any infamous crime involving a violation of conjugal duty and
punishable by imprisonment in State prison.
Parties divorced may marry again.
There is no limited divorce recognized by the laws of Connecticut.
DELAWARE.
MARRIAGE.--While no age is fixed by statute as to when males or females
may conclude marriage, in case of a marriage under the age of 18 years
for males and 16 years for females a divorce can be obtained for fraud for
want of age, in the absence of voluntary ratification after reaching that
age.
Parental consent is required for males under 21 years and females under 18
years.
IMPEDIMENTS.--Degrees of consanguinity: A man may not marry his mother,
father's sister, mother's sister, sister, daughter or the daughter of his
son or daughter. A woman may not marry her father, father's brother,
mother's brother, brother, son, or the son of her son or daughter. Degrees
of affinity: A man may not marry his father's wife, son's wife, son's
daughter, wife's daughter, or the daughter of his wife's son or daughter.
A woman may not marry her mother's husband, daughter's husband, husband's
son, or the son of her husband's son or daughter.
Marriages between whites and negroes or mulattoes are prohibited.
CAUSES FOR DIVORCE.--They are adultery, bigamy, desertion for two years,
habitual drunkenness for two years, extreme cruelty, or conviction after
marriage of a crime, followed by continuous imprisonment for two years.
The causes for divorce from bed and board are the same, with the addition
of one other, namely, hopeless insanity of the husband.
A marriage may be annulled for any of the following causes, existing at
the time of the marriage: Incurable physical impotency; consanguinity; a
former husband or wife living at the time of the marriage; fraud, force or
coercion; insanity of either party; minority of either party, unless the
marriage be confirmed after reaching proper age, to wit.: wife, 16 years;
husband, 18 years.
FLORIDA.
MARRIAGE.--In order to be valid marriages must be celebrated before a
qualified clergyman, judge, magistrate or notary public.
Parties must be of sound mind, and the male at least seventeen years of
age and the female at least fourteen years of age.
DIVORCE.--Absolute divorce dissolving a marriage is granted by the courts
for the following causes:
1. That the parties are within the degrees prohibited by law.
2. That the defendant is naturally impotent.
3. That the defendant has been guilty of adultery.
4. Extreme cruelty by defendant to complainant.
5. Habitual indulgence by defendant in violent and ungovernable temper.
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