Contested Divorce
Contested divorce needs to show some form of “fault” or misconduct by one of the parties. One example is adultery, either in the form of heterosexual or homosexual relations between the spouse and another person. Other examples are mental incapacity during the marriage, desertion, fraud in obtaining the marriage, imprisonment/conviction for certain crimes, cruel mental or physical treatment, drug addiction/intoxication, or impotency at the time of marriage. It is not necessarily advantageous to establish a “fault” divorce.