What Are The Grounds For Divorce In Oklahoma?
Oklahoma recognizes the following 12 grounds for divorce: • Abandonment for one year; • Adultery; • Impotence; • When the wife, at the time of marriage, was pregnant with another man’s child; • Extreme cruelty; • Fraudulent contract; • Incompatibility; • Habitual drunkenness; • Gross neglect of duty; • Imprisonment of the other part in a state or federal penal institution under sentence thereto for the commission of a felony at the time the petition is filed; • The procurement of a final divorce decree from another state by a husband or wife which does not in Oklahoma release the other party from the obligations of marriage; and • Insanity for a period of 5 years.
