Key Rules

Question 1

Constructive desertion requires that a spouse prove the other’s conduct as…

Answer 1

so egregious as to justify the non-offending spouse leaving the marital home.

Question 2

Cruelty requires acts that…

Answer 2

tend to cause bodily harm and render the spouses’ living together unsafe.

Question 3

Adultery is not grounds for divorce when the other spouse….

Answer 3

also engaged in adultery (recrimination); or condoned such act by resuming marital relations (condonation).

Question 4

A no-fault divorce may be decreed if the parties…

Answer 4

lived separate and apart for 6 months, without cohabitation or interruption, if there are no children and the parties have a separation agreement, or upon separation of the parties for a period of one year if they have children.