Causes for divorce
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 162 W. Va. 289 - Dyer v. Tsapis (1978)
Most recently applied in Voss v. Voss (August 2021)
1863, p. 616, § 22; R.S., § 2457; am. 1899, p. 232, § 1; 1903, p. 332, § 1; compiled and reen
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Divorces may be granted for any of the following causes:
(1) Adultery.
(2) Extreme cruelty.
(3) Wilful desertion.
(4) Wilful neglect.
(5) Habitual intemperance.
(6) Conviction of felony.
(7) When either the husband or wife has become permanently insane, as provided in sections 32-801 to 32-805[, Idaho Code], inclusive.
(8) Irreconcilable differences.
Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.