Georgia law has 13 grounds for divorce:
(1) Intermarriage by persons within the prohibited degrees
of consanguinity and affinity.
(2) Mental incapacity at the time of the marriage.
(3) Impotency at the time of marriage.
(4) Force, menace, duress, or fraud in obtaining the marriage.
(5) Pregnancy of the wife by a man other than the husband,
at the time of the marriage, unknown by the husband.
(6) Adultery in either of the parties after marriage.
(7) Willful and continued desertion by either of the parties
for the term of one year.
(8) The conviction of either party for an offense involving
moral turpitude and under which he or she is sentenced to
imprisonment in a penal institution for a term of two years or longer.
(9) Habitual intoxication.
(10) Cruel treatment, which shall consist of the willful infliction
of pain, bodily or mental, upon the complaining party, such as
reasonably justifies apprehension of danger to life, limb, or health.
(11) Incurable mental illness.
(12) Habitual drug addiction.
(13) The marriage is irretrievably broken.

Divorce ground number 13, “irretrievably broken”, is the so
called “no fault” ground for divorce. The most commonly used
grounds are the no-fault ground, adultery, desertion, and
cruel treatment.

Contact Karen S. Hindson P.C. to discuss questions regarding how Georgia laws apply to your divorce situation.