Divorce.—The following are legal causes for an absolute divorce: Adultery; extreme cruelty; wilful desertion; wilful neglect; habitual intemperance; and conviction by either party of a felony.
All decrees of divorce are first granted nisi, and an absolute or final decree cannot be secured until one year after the entry of the decree nisi.
Marriages may be annulled on the following grounds: That the party petitioning for annulment was under age at the date of marriage; that the former husband or wife of either party was living and the former marriage undissolved at the time of the marriage in question; that one of the parties was of unsound mind when the marriage was concluded; that the marriage was procured by fraud; that the marriage was procured by coercion; that at the time of the marriage one of the parties was impotent, and such physical incapacity continues to the date of bringing the suit for annulment.
Colorado.
Marriage.—Marriage is a civil contract. The minimum marriageable age for males and for females has not been fixed by statute.
Parental consent is required for males under 21 years or for females under 18 years.
Impediments.—All marriages between parents and children, including grandparents and grandchildren, of every degree; between brothers and sisters of the half as well as of the whole blood; and between uncles and nieces and aunts and nephews are declared to be incestuous and void. This provision applies to illegitimate as well as to legitimate children.
The statute contains a provision that persons living in that portion of the State acquired from Mexico are permitted to marry according to the custom of that country.
No person can lawfully conclude marriage within one year after divorce.
Marriages are also forbidden between whites and negroes or mulattoes.