Oklahoma Dissolution of Marriage Statutes
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Selected Oklahoma Family Law Stututes
- Title 43, Section 101 - Grounds for Divorce. The district court may grant a divorce for any of the following causes:
- First. Abandonment for one (1) year.
- Second. Adultery.
- Third. Impotency.
- Fourth. When the wife at the time of her marriage, was pregnant by another than her husband.
- Fifth. Extreme cruelty.
- Sixth. Fraudulent contract.
- Seventh. Incompatibility.
- Eighth. Habitual drunkenness.
- Ninth. Gross neglect of duty.
- Tenth. Imprisonment of the other party in a state or federal penal institution under sentence thereto for the commission of a felony at the time the petition is filed.
- Eleventh. The procurement of a final divorce decree without this state by a husband or wife which does not in this state release the other party from the obligations of the marriage.
- Twelfth. Insanity for a period of five (5) years, the insane person having been an inmate of a state institution for the insane in the State of Oklahoma, or inmate of a state institution for the insane in some other state for such period, or of a private sanitarium, and affected with a type of insanity with a poor prognosis for recovery * * * .
- Title 43, Section 102 - Residency Requirement of Plaintiff or Defendant - Army Post or Military Reservation.
A. Except as otherwise provided by subsection B of this section, the petitioner or the respondent in an action for divorce or annulment of a marriage must have been an actual resident, in good faith, of the state, for six (6) months immediately preceding the filing of the petition.
B. Any person who has been a resident of any United States army post or military reservation within the State of Oklahoma, for six (6) months immediately preceding the filing of the petition, may bring action for divorce or annulment of a marriage or may be sued for divorce or annulment of a marriage.
Last Updated: 10-12-08
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