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Alabama Legal Requirements for Divorce
Explanation of Chart and More Information on Requirements for Divorce
| Code Section | 30-2-1 to 12 |
| Residency Requirements | At least one party must be resident and must have resided 6 months prior to filing. |
| Waiting Period | 30 days from date of the filing of the summons and complaint |
| 'No Fault' Grounds for Divorce | Irretrievable breakdown; separation (2 yrs.). |
| Defenses to a Divorce Filing | Condonation, (not if parties connived to commit adultery). Collusion |
| Other Grounds for Divorce | Adultery; cruelty or violence; drug/alcohol addiction after marriage; insanity (in mental hosp. for 5 successive yrs.); pregnant at time of marriage without husband's knowledge; imprisonment for 2 yrs. if sentence is 7 yrs. or longer; crime against nature with mankind or beast before or after marriage; incompatible temperaments; voluntary abandonment from bed or board for 1 yr.; wife lived apart for 2 years without husband's support while she's residing in state; at time of marriage, incapacitated from entering married state. |
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