Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World Part 36

8. Habitual drunkenness for three years.

9. Imprisonment in a penitentiary.

10. Procurement of a divorce without the State.

ACTIONS FOR SEPARATE MAINTENANCE.--A wife may sue for separate maintenance because of:

1. Adultery.

2. Gross neglect of duty.

3. Abandonment without good cause.

4. Habitual drunkenness.

5. Sentence to imprisonment in a penitentiary.

EFFECTS OF DIVORCE.--If the divorce is granted to the wife, because of the aggression of the husband, she shall be allowed such alimony out of her husband's property as the court deems reasonable. If the husband secures a divorce, on the aggression of the wife, he shall be allowed such alimony out of the wife's property as the court deems reasonable.

The granting of a divorce does not affect the legitimacy of the children of the parties.

Upon granting a divorce, the court shall make such order for the care and support of the children as is just and proper.

OKLAHOMA.

MARRIAGE.--The minimum age for marriage and the rule as to parental consent are the same as that stated for Nebraska.

IMPEDIMENTS.--Same as in Nebraska.

FORMALITIES.--Same as in Nebraska.

CAUSES FOR DIVORCE:

1. Adultery.

2. Former husband or wife living.

3. Abandonment for one year.

4. Impotency.

5. Pregnancy by wife at time of marriage by another man.

6. Extreme cruelty.

7. Fraudulent contract.

8. Habitual drunkenness.

9. Gross neglect of duty.

10. Conviction of felony.

ACTION FOR SEPARATE MAINTENANCE.--This action may be maintained for any of the causes sufficient for divorce.

OREGON.

MARRIAGE.--A male is capable of marrying at 18 years, a female at 15 years. Parental consent is required for males under 21 years and females under 18 years.

IMPEDIMENTS.--Marriages between first cousins of the whole or half blood or relatives nearer of kin are prohibited.

Marriages between whites and negroes or Mongolians, or persons of one-fourth or more negro or Mongolian blood.

CAUSES FOR DIVORCE:

1. Impotency.

2. Adultery.

3. Conviction of felony.

4. Habitual drunkenness.

5. Wilful desertion for one year.

6. Cruel and inhuman treatment, or personal indignities rendering life burdensome.

PENNSYLVANIA.

MARRIAGE.--The minimum age for marriage is not fixed by statute. Both males and females require parental consent to marry under 21 years of age.

IMPEDIMENTS.--A man may not marry his mother, father's sister, mother's sister, sister, daughter, granddaughter, father's wife, son's wife, son's daughter, wife's daughter, daughter of wife's son or daughter.

A woman may not marry her father, father's brother, mother's brother, brother, son, grandson, mother's husband, daughter's husband, husband's son, son of her husband's son or daughter.

By the act effective January 1, 1902, marriage is prohibited between persons who are of kin of the degree of first cousins.

FORMALITIES.--License is necessary unless there is a publication of banns.

The parties may solemnize their own marriage by obtaining from the clerk of the orphans' court a formal declaration of their right to do so instead of a license.

Marriage may be solemnized by any minister of the Gospel, justice of the peace, or alderman, or by the parties themselves.

CAUSES FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE: