7. Sentence to prison for an infamous offense.
8. False accusation of adultery.
9. Wife’s desertion of the husband continued for three years.
Divorce Procedure.—As before stated the suit for divorce must be brought before the ecclesiastical court.
Effects of Divorce.—If the guilty party is the wife, her husband has the right to retain all her dowry which she brought to him, and to retake all gifts made to her either before or after marriage.
If the guilty party is the husband, the wife has the right to recover her dowry, to keep any present she ever received from the husband, and to exact suitable maintenance from her divorced husband until such time as she remarries.
The custody of the children is given to the winning suitor, except that children under five years remain in the care of their mother.