Section 25.24.050. Grounds for divorce.

A divorce may be granted for any of the following grounds:
        (1) failure to consummate the marriage at the time of the marriage and continuing at the commencement of the action;
        (2) adultery;
        (3) conviction of a felony;
        (4) wilful desertion for a period of one year;
        (5) either
             (A) cruel and inhuman treatment calculated to impair health or endanger life;
             (B) personal indignities rendering life burdensome; or
             (C) incompatibility of temperament;
        (6) habitual gross drunkenness contracted since marriage and continuing for one year prior to the commencement of the action;
        (7)   [Repealed, Sec. 68 ch 127 SLA 1974].
        (8) incurable mental illness when the spouse has been confined to an institution for a period of at least 18 months immediately preceding the commencement of the action; the status as to the support and maintenance of the mentally ill person is not altered in any way by the granting of the divorce;
        (9) addiction of either party, subsequent to the marriage, to the habitual use of opium, morphine, cocaine, or a similar drug.

Authorities

25.24.130

Notes

References

AS 25.24.130 Defenses to other divorce grounds.

History

(Sec. 12.05 ch 101 SLA 1962; am Sec. 2 ch 3 SLA 1974; am Sec. 67, 68 ch 127 SLA 1974)