Reasons for divorce in Tennessee
The most common ground for divorce in the state of Tennessee is irreconcilable differences between the parties. This is a no-fault ground for divorce and does not require proof.
Other grounds are allowed; however, they may require proof or additional testimony. These grounds are:
- Either party, at the time of the contract, was and still is impotent and not capable of procreation
- Either of the parties has knowingly entered into a second marriage
- Adultery by either party
- Willful or malicious desertion or absence of either party, without a reasonable cause, for one (1) whole year
- Conviction of a crime that renders the party infamous
- Conviction of a felony that ends in imprisonment
- Either party has attempted to kill the other, by poison or any other reason
- Being willfully absent from a spouse who lives in Tennessee for at least two years
- A woman was pregnant at the time of marriage by another person, without the knowledge of the husband
- Habitual drunkenness or abuse of drugs, such as narcotics, when the spouse has contracted the habit after the marriage began
- Either party is guilty of cruel and inhumane treatment, also known as inappropriate marital conduct
- A spouse offering indignities to make marriage intolerable
- Abandonment or turning the spouse out of the house for no just reason
- For two or more years the parties have lived separately without cohabitation