GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE

1.One or more acts of adultery committed by the other party.

Voluntary engagement in sexual relations with a third party who is not her /his spouse.

2.Cruelty by the other spouse

Whether mental or physical, inflicted by the other party on the petitioner or on the children, if any, of the marriage.

3.Desertion by either party for at least 3 years

Desertion is a voluntary ,unjustified and final separation of one of the married parties from the other with an intention to terminate the marriage or an unjustified refusal to resume suspended cohabitation.

4.Exceptional depravity by either party

Courts have defined this to mean spouses have reached a point of being unable to live together happily for reasons which may seem trivial to an outsider but have a huge impact on their lives and it is unreasonable to continue to bear them.

5.The irretrievable breakdown of the marriage.

According to the Court Of Appeal this means a situation where one or both spouses are no longer able or willing to live together and the marriage is destroyed.