Husband’s Name.—A divorced wife is entitled to continue to use her former husband’s surname.
Annulment of Marriage.—An action for the annulment of marriage has for its purpose the setting aside of the marriage contract on the theory that proper consent to the marriage has never been given by both the parties.
The following are the causes or grounds for such annulment:
1. A prior and existing marriage of one of the parties;
2. Impotency, or such physical malformation of one of the parties which prevents him or her from consummating the marriage by sexual intercourse;
3. Relationship within the prohibited degrees;
4. Marriage procured by fraud, violence or mistake;
5. Insanity of one of the parties at the time of the marriage;
6. Marriage performed without legal license, or without the required publication of banns.
Judicial Separation.—By the Matrimonial Causes Act a decree of judicial separation, which is equivalent in effect to a divorce a mensa et thoro under the old law, may be obtained either by the husband or wife on the ground of adultery, or cruelty, or desertion without legal cause for two years and upwards.