Impediments.—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, between uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and between cousins of the first degree are declared to be incestuous and void. This includes illegitimate as well as legitimate children and relations.
Causes for Absolute Divorce:
1. When either party at the time of marriage was and continues to be naturally impotent.
2. When he or she had a wife or husband living at the time of such marriage.
3. When either party has committed adultery subsequent to the marriage.
4. When either party has wilfully deserted or absented himself or herself from the wife or husband, without any reasonable cause, for the space of two years.
5. When either party has been guilty of habitual drunkenness for the space of two years.
6. When either party has attempted the life of the other by poison or other means showing malice.
7. When either party has been guilty of extreme and repeated cruelty.
8. When either party has been convicted of felony or other infamous crime.