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GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE:
 
The grounds for divorce in Tennessee include the following:
 
   Impotency and being incapable of procreation;
   Bigamy;
   Adultery
   Willful or malicious desertion or absence without a reasonable cause for one (1) whole year.
   Being convicted of any crime that renders the party infamous;
   Being convicted of a crime that is declared to be a felony and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary;
   Malicious attempt upon the life of the other;
   Refusal, on the part of a spouse, to remove with that person's spouse to this state, without a reasonable cause, and being willfully absent from the spouse residing in Tennessee for two (2) years;
   The woman was pregnant at the time of the marriage, by another person, without the knowledge of the husband;
   Habitual drunkenness or abuse of narcotic drugs of either party, when the spouse has contracted either such habit after marriage;
   The husband or wife is guilty of such cruel and inhuman treatment or conduct towards the spouse as renders cohabitation unsafe and improper, which may also be referred to in pleadings as inappropriate marital conduct;
   The husband or wife has offered such indignities to the spouse's person as to render the spouse's position intolerable, and thereby forced the spouse to withdraw;
   The husband or wife has abandoned the spouse or turned the spouse out of doors for no just cause, and has refused or neglected to provide for the spouse while having the ability to so provide;
   Irreconcilable differences between the parties; and
   For a continuous period of two (2) or more years, both parties have lived in separate residences, have not cohabited as man and wife during such period, and there are no minor children of the parties.
 
 
DEFENSES TO THE GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE INCLUDE:
 
Condonation: This occurs when one spouse knows the other spouse has committed an act that would be grounds for divorce, but the spouse forgives him or her (this is typically proven by showing that the parties engaged in sexual intercourse at some point after the offending act was discovered).
 
Recrimination: Both parties have committed acts that make them equally guilty of wrongdoing and so the Court refuses to grant either party a divorce.
 
 
 
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