N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 458:7
Absolute Divorce, Generally
Effective Jan 1, 2023RS 148:3. CS 157:3. GS 163:3. GL 182:3. PS 175:5. PL 287:6. 1938, 4:1. RL 339:6. RSA 458:7. 1957, 67:1. 1999, 198:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2000. 2022, 114:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2023.
A divorce from the bonds of matrimony shall be decreed in favor of the innocent party for any of the following causes:
- I. Impotency of either party.
- II. Adultery of either party.
- III. Extreme cruelty of either party to the other.
- IV. Conviction of either party, in any state or federal district, of a crime punishable with imprisonment for more than one year and actual imprisonment under such conviction.
- V. When either party has so treated the other as seriously to injure health or endanger reason.
- VI. When either party has been absent 2 years together, and has not been heard of.
- VII. When either party habitually abuses alcohol or drugs and has been doing so for 2 or more years together.
- VIII. When either party has joined any religious sect or society which professes to believe the relation of husband and wife unlawful, and has refused to cohabit with the other for 6 months together.
IX. When either party, without sufficient cause, and without the consent of the other, has abandoned and refused, for 2 years together, to cohabit with the other.
X-XIII. [Repealed.]
Source. RS 148:3. CS 157:3. GS 163:3. GL 182:3. PS 175:5. PL 287:6. 1938, 4:1. RL 339:6. RSA 458:7. 1957, 67:1. 1999, 198:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2000. 2022, 114:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2023.