The legal causes for divorce are:

1. Adultery on the part of the wife in every case, and on the part of the husband when public scandal or disgrace of the wife results therefrom.

2. Personal violence actually inflicted or grave insults.

3. Violence exercised by the husband toward the wife in order to force her to change her religion.

4. The proposal of the husband to prostitute his wife.

5. The attempts of the husband or wife to corrupt their sons, or to prostitute their daughters, and connivance in their corruption or prostitution.

6. The condemnation of a spouse to penal servitude.

Effects of Divorce:

1. The separation of the spouses in every case.

2. The protection of the wife.