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Oklahoma Legal Requirements for Divorce
Explanation of Chart and More Information on Requirements for Divorce
| Code Section | Tit. 43 §§101, et seq. |
| Residency Requirements | One party must have been resident in good faith for 6 months before filing. |
| Waiting Period | Final immediately unless appealed, but neither may marry for 6 months (if so guilty of bigamy) nor cohabit for 30 days (if so guilty of adultery). |
| 'No Fault' Grounds for Divorce | Incompatibility . |
| Defenses to a Divorce Filing | - |
| Other Grounds for Divorce | Adultery; cruelty or violence; abandonment/desertion (1 yr.); alcohol addiction; impotency; insanity (for 5 yrs. prior); pregnant at time of marriage (not by husband); conviction of felony; fraudulent contract; procuring divorce out of state not releasing one party; gross neglect of duty. |
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