A divorce may be granted for any of the following grounds: (1) failure to consummate the marriage at the time of the marriage and continuing at the commencement of the action; (2) adultery; (3) conviction of a felony; (4) wilful desertion for a period of one year; (5) either (A) cruel and inhuman treatment calculated to impair health or endanger life; (B) personal indignities rendering life burdensome; or (C) incompatibility of temperament; (6) habitual gross drunkenness contracted since marriage and continuing for one year prior to the commencement of the action; (7) [Repealed, § 68 ch 127 SLA 1974.] (8) incurable mental illness when the spouse has been confined to an institution for a period of at least 18 months immediately preceding the commencement of the action; the status as to the support and maintenance of the mentally ill person is not altered in any way by the granting of the divorce; (9) addiction of either party, subsequent to the marriage, to the habitual use of opium, morphine, cocaine, or a similar drug.
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