Formalities.—A marriage must be preceded by a license or the publication of banns.
A marriage celebration requires the attendance of two witnesses of full age.
Divorce.—A domicile of two years or more is a condition precedent to bringing a suit for divorce.
The following are legal grounds for a divorce or dissolution of the marriage bond:
1. Adultery on part of the wife.
2. Adultery on part of the husband if committed in the conjugal residence or if it is coupled with circumstances or conduct of aggravation or of a repeated act of adultery.
3. Desertion without just cause continued for three years or more.
4. The habitual drunkenness of a husband for three years, if the husband has habitually left his wife without support, or has habitually been guilty of cruelty to her.
5. Habitual drunkenness of a wife for three years, if the wife has habitually neglected her domestic duties, or rendered herself unfit to discharge them.
6. Imprisonment of either spouse for not less than three years, and being still in prison under a commuted sentence for a capital crime, or under sentence to penal servitude for seven years or more.