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September 3, 2025

48-5-207. Grounds for divorce; habitual drunkenness or drug addiction

(a) A divorce may be ordered for habitual drunkenness of either party subsequent to the marriage.

(b) A divorce may be ordered for the addiction of either party, subsequent to the marriage, to the habitual use of any narcotic or dangerous drug defined in this code.

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