Grounds for Divorce

What are the legal grounds for obtaining a divorce in Alabama?

Grounds for divorce are considered fault or no-fault. Fault grounds for divorce may include adultery, abandonment, habitual drunkenness, cruelty, and use of addictive drugs.

A no-fault divorce is one in which neither the husband nor the wife officially blames the other for the breakdown of the marriage. Common grounds for a no-fault divorce are "irreconcilable differences, "irretrievable breakdown," or "incompatibility."

It is a general rule that divorces that allege fault grounds will proceed to trial, and that no-fault divorces are uncontested divorces.