3. Husband’s abandonment of wife, or his turning her out of doors, refusing or neglecting to provide for her.
Texas.
Marriage.—Earliest age for males to marry is 16 years; females 14 years. Parental consent required for males under 21 years and females under 18 years.
Impediments.—The prohibited degrees of kinship are the same as in New York.
Marriage is forbidden between persons of European blood or their descendants and Africans or the descendants of Africans.
Formalities.—License required. Marriage may be solemnized by religious or civil ceremony.
Causes for Divorce.—
1. Excesses; cruel treatment.
2. Wife taken in adultery.
3. Wife’s abandonment of husband for three years.