Grounds for Divorce: The court may grant a no-fault divorce upon a finding of irreconcilable differences, but only upon the joint complaint of the husband and wife or a complaint where the defendant has been personally served with process or where the defendant has entered an appearance by written waiver of process. The court may grant a fault divorce upon a finding of any of the following causes:
1. Natural impotency
2. Adultery, unless it should appear that it was committed by collusion of the parties for the purpose of procuring a divorce, or unless the parties cohabited after a knowledge by complainant of the adultery
3. Being sentenced to any penitentiary, and not pardoned before being sent there
4. Wilful, continued and obstinate desertion for the space of one year
5. Habitual drunkenness
6. Habitual and excessive use of opium, morphine or other like drug
7. Habitual cruel and inhuman treatment
8. Insanity or idiocy at the time of marriage, if the party complaining did not know of such infirmity
9. Marriage to some other person at the time of the pretended marriage between the parties
10. Pregnancy of the wife by another person at the time of the marriage, if the husband did not know of such pregnancy
11. Either party may have a divorce if they be related to each other within the degrees of kindred between whom marriage is prohibited by law.
12. Incurable insanity.
[Mississippi Code]
Residency Requirements: “The jurisdiction of the chancery court in suits for divorce shall be confined to the following cases:
(a) Where one (1) of the parties has been an actual bona fide resident within this state for six (6) months next preceding the commencement of the suit. If a member of the armed services of the United States is stationed in the state and residing within the state with his spouse, such person and his spouse shall be considered actual bona fide residents of the state for the purposes of this section, provided they were residing within the state at the time of the separation of the parties.
(b) In any case where the proof shows that a residence was acquired in this state with a purpose of securing a divorce, the court shall not take jurisdiction thereof, but dismiss the bill at the cost of complainant.” [Mississippi Code]
Mississippi Child Support Enforcement Service Links and Telephone Numbers
Department of Human Services Division of Child Support EnforcementTelephone: 866–388–2836
Mississippi Child Support Guidelines
Mississippi Code of 1972 Section 43-19-101
Mississippi Divorce Forms Online
Mississippi Lawyers Legal Forms Bank
Mississippi Divorce Laws
Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 93
Mississippi Domestic Violence Resource Links and Telephone Numbers
Mississippi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Telephone: 601–981–9196
Toll Free: 800–898–3234
Mississippi Free or Low Cost Legal Services Programs
Legal Services Corporation, Inc.
Telephone: Listed by program on website.
Mississippi Mediation Centers and Service Links and Telephone Numbers
The Accord Institute: 662–449–1221
Mississippi Mediation & Arbitration: 601–969–5580
Mississippi State and Local Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Links
No Lawyer Referral Services are currently available
Mississippi State and Local Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service Telephone Numbers
No Lawyer Referral Services are currently available
