Statutes: Northern Mariana Islands

A divorce from marriage may be granted under this chapter for the following causes and no other:

(a) Adultery.

(b) The guilt of either party toward the other of such cruel treatment, neglect or personal indignities, whether or not amounting to physical cruelty, as to render the life of the other burdensome and intolerable and their further living together unsupportable.

(c) Willful desertion continued for a period of not less than one year.

(d) Habitual intemperance in the use of intoxicating liquor or drugs continued for a period of not less than one year.

(e) The sentencing of either party to imprisonment for life or for three years or more. After divorce for this cause, no pardon granted to the sentenced party shall affect the divorce.

(f) The insanity of either party where the same has existed for three years or more.

(g) Irreconcilable differences, which are persistent and irresolvable disagreements between spouses that result in the breakdown of the marriage. Irreconcilable differences may be cited generally without citation of specific differences, as grounds for dissolution of the marriage.

(h) The separation of the parties for two consecutive years without cohabitation, whether or not by mutual consent.

(i) Willful neglect by the husband to provide suitable support for his wife when able to do so or when failure to do so is because of his idleness, profligacy or dissipation.