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New Hampshire Legal Requirements for Divorce
Explanation of Chart and More Information on Requirements for Divorce
| Code Section | 458 et seq. |
| Residency Requirements | Both parties domiciled or plaintiff was domiciled and defendant was personally served or plaintiff domiciled in state at least 1 yr. before action. |
| Waiting Period | No special provision |
| 'No Fault' Grounds for Divorce | Irreconcilable differences; separation (absent 2 yrs.) |
| Defenses to a Divorce Filing | Common law defenses: condonation, connivance, recrimination, insanity a factor, but not defense |
| Other Grounds for Divorce | Adultery; cruelty or violence; drug/alcohol addiction; impotency; nonsupport; unexplained absence (for 2 yrs.); conviction of crime (with imprisonment for more than 1 yr.); joining religious group believing the relation of husband and wife unlawful and refusal to cohabit for 6 mos.; refusal to cohabit for 2 yrs. |
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