TITLE 15

Domestic Relations

CHAPTER 15-5

Divorce and Separation

SECTION 15-5-2



   § 15-5-2  Additional grounds for divorce.

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Divorces from the bond of marriage shall also be decreed for the following

causes:



   (1) Impotency;



   (2) Adultery;



   (3) Extreme cruelty;



   (4) Willful desertion for five (5) years of either of the

parties, or for willful desertion for a shorter period of time in the

discretion of the court;



   (5) Continued drunkenness;



   (6) The habitual, excessive, and intemperate use of opium,

morphine, or chloral;



   (7) Neglect and refusal, for the period of at least one year

next before the filing of the petition, on the part of the husband to provide

necessaries for the subsistence of his wife, the husband being of sufficient

ability; and



   (8) Any other gross misbehavior and wickedness, in either of

the parties, repugnant to and in violation of the marriage covenant.



History of Section.

(G.L. 1896, ch. 195, § 2; P.L. 1902, ch. 971, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch.

247, § 2; G.L. 1923, ch. 291, § 2; G.L. 1938, ch. 416, § 2; G.L.

1956, § 15-5-2; P.L. 1975, ch. 287, § 1.)