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Delaware Legal Requirements for Divorce
Explanation of Chart and More Information on Requirements for Divorce
| Code Section | Tit. 13 §§1503, et seq. |
| Residency Requirements | Action brought where either party is a resident for 6 months or longer. |
| Waiting Period | Decree final when entered subject to right of appeal within 30 days. |
| 'No Fault' Grounds for Divorce | Irretrievable breakdown; voluntary separation. |
| Defenses to a Divorce Filing | Defenses of condonation; connivance, recrimination, insanity and lapse of time are preserved only for a marriage that is separated and the separation caused by misconduct; respondent's failure of jurisdictional/residential requirements. |
| Other Grounds for Divorce | Separation caused respondent's misconduct, mental illness or incompatibility. |
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