What are the grounds for divorce in Mississippi?
(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.
Divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be granted on the ground 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.
