What are the grounds for a contested divorce?
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- Adultery
- Habitual drunkenness or abuse of narcotic drugs that has worsened since the marriage
- Living separately and apart for two years with no minor children
- Willful or malicious desertion for one full year without a reasonable cause
- Conviction of a felony and sentencing to the penitentiary or conviction of an infamous crime
- Pregnancy of the wife by another before the marriage without the husband's knowledge
- Willful refusal to move to Tennessee with your spouse and living apart for two years
- Malicious attempt upon the life of the other
- Lack of reconciliation for two years after the entry of a decree of separate maintenance
- Impotency and sterility
- Bigamy
- Cruel and inhuman treatment (which may also be referred to as "inappropriate marital conduct")
- Indignities offered by one spouse to the other
- Abandonment of the wife in which the husband refuses or neglects to provide for her
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