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Mississippi Legal Requirements for Divorce
Explanation of Chart and More Information on Requirements for Divorce
| Code Section | 93-5-1, et seq. |
| Residency Requirements | One party actual, bona fide resident for 6 months before suit. |
| Waiting Period | Final decree entered immediately but may be revoked at any time by granting court upon joint request of parties. |
| 'No Fault' Grounds for Divorce | Irreconcilable differences (only if uncontested). |
| Defenses to a Divorce Filing | Recrimination not absolute bar; collusion (adultery). |
| Other Grounds for Divorce | Adultery; cruelty or violence; willful desertion; drug/alcohol addiction; natural impotency; incurable insanity; pregnant at time of marriage; conviction of crime; prior marriage undissolved; in line of consanguinity. |
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