Reasons for divorce in Alabama

The most common ground for divorce in the state of Alabama is an incompatibility in an irretrievable breakdown of a marriage.

The other grounds allowed within the state do require proof or additional testimony. These grounds include either party having been physically or mentally incapacitated and unable to enter into the marriage state, adultery, voluntary abandonment from bed and board for one year, and imprisonment in a penitentiary for two years. Grounds may also include commission of a crime against nature, mankind or beast, addiction to habitual drunkenness or use of opium, morphine, cocaine or other like drug, incompatibility of temperament, or confinement to a mental hospital for a period of five successful years. There may be other reasons that are acceptable in the state of Alabama as well and more information about grounds for divorce can be found when using Divorce.com.