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The term "divorce" in the strict legal sense means the dissolution of a valid marriage, a formal separation of married persons and the annulment of a marriage void from the begining. In Maryland, the law provides for two types of divorce, namely an absolute divorce and a limited divorce. An Absolute Divorce disolves the bond on marriage releasing the parties wholly from their matrimonal obligations. A Limited Divorce is a judicial permission to live separate and apart. The Court grants onto the injured spouse the right to live separate from the spouse at fault with no severance of the marital bond.
1. Adultery
2. Desertion if continued for 12 months without interruption before filing, it is deliberate and final and no reasonable expectation of reconciliation.
3. Voluntary Separation, if lived separate and apart without cohabitation for 12 months without interruption before filing and no reasonable expectation of reconciliation.
4. Conviction of a felony or misdemeanor if before the filing the defendant has been sentenced to serve at least 3 years or indeterminate sentence and served 12 months of the sentence.
5. Two year separation without cohabitation and interuption berfore filing.
6. Insanity, if a spouse is confined to a mental institution for atleast 3 years before filing, the court finds testimony of two competent physicians that insanity is incurable and there is no hope of recovery and one spouse is a resident of Maryland for 2 years before filing.
1. Cruelty of treatment of the complaining party or a monor child of the complaining party.
2. Excessively vicious conduct of the complaining party or a monor child of the complaining party.
3. Desertion
4. Voluntary separation, if parties living separate and apart without cohabitation and no reasonable expectation of reconciliation.
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