Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World Part 33

2. Impotency at time of marriage.

3. Sentence to three years' imprisonment or more.

4. Abandonment for two years.

5. Habitual drunkenness.

6. Extreme cruelty.

7. Utter desertion.

8. When husband unreasonably and cruelly refuses to provide maintenance for wife.

Limited divorce may be obtained on the three last grounds.

NEVADA.

MARRIAGE.--Males cannot marry under 18 years or females under 16 years.

Parental consent is required for males under 21 years and females under 18 years.

PROHIBITED DEGREES.--Marriages between persons nearer of kin than second cousins of the whole blood or cousins of the half blood.

FORMALITIES.--No particular form prescribed, but it is unlawful for clergyman or magistrate to solemnize marriage without having a license presented.

CAUSES FOR DIVORCE:

1. Impotency at time of marriage.

2. Adultery.

3. Wilful desertion for one year.

4. Conviction of felony or infamous crime.

5. Habitual drunkenness.

6. Extreme cruelty.

7. Neglect of husband to provide necessaries of life.

Upon granting a decree of divorce the court shall make such other direction regarding disposition of property and custody of children as justice may demand.

NEW HAMPs.h.i.+RE.

MARRIAGE.--A male cannot marry under 14 years or a female under 13 years.

There is no statutory requirement for parental consent.

PROHIBITED DEGREE.--Same as in Ma.s.sachusetts. Common law marriage is recognized.

FORMALITIES.--License is necessary, but no particular form of ceremony is required.

CAUSES FOR DIVORCE:

1. Impotency.

2. Adultery.

3. Extreme cruelty.

4. Conviction of crime punishable in this State for more than one year.

5. Treatment detrimental to health.

6. Treatment to endanger reason.

7. Three years' absence.

8. Habitual drunkenness.

9. When either party joins a sect opposed to cohabitation between husband and wife.

10. Desertion for three years.

Upon granting a decree of divorce the court will make such order as to maintenance of wife and custody of children as the facts shall call for.

NEW JERSEY.

MARRIAGE.--No minimum age is fixed for marriage. Males under 21 years and females under 18 years must have consent of parents.

IMPEDIMENTS.--A man shall not marry any of his ancestors or descendants, or his sister, or the daughter of his brother or sister, or the sister of his father or mother, whether such collateral kindred be of the whole or half blood. A woman shall not marry any of her ancestors or descendants, or her brother, or the son of her brother or sister, or the brother of her father or mother, whether such collateral kindred be of the whole or half blood.

FORMALITIES.--A marriage license is necessary only for non-residents of State.

No special form of ceremony is prescribed, except that when solemnized by a religious society it must be according to the rules and usages of such society.

CAUSES FOR DIVORCE:

1. Adultery.

2. Wilful, continued and obstinate desertion for the term of two years.

3. When either party was, at the time of marriage, incapable of consenting thereto and the marriage has not been subsequently ratified.

LIMITED DIVORCES. Granted for

1. Desertion.