There are two ways to be divorced in Mississippi: agree to be divorced because of irreconcilable differences, or allege grounds for divorce against your spouse in your Complaint for Divorce. The grounds for a contested divorce in Mississippi are:
· Natural impotency.
· Adultery.
· Being sentenced to any penitentiary, and not pardoned before being sent there.
· Willful, continued and obstinate desertion for the space of one (1) year.
· Habitual drunkenness.
· Habitual and excessive use of opium, morphine or other like drug.
· Habitual cruel and inhuman treatment.
· Mental illness or mental retardation at the time of marriage, if the party complaining did not know of that infirmity.
· Marriage to some other person at the time of the pretended marriage between the parties.
· Pregnancy of the wife by another person at the time of the marriage, if the husband did not know of the pregnancy.
· Either party may have a divorce if they are related to each other within the degrees of kindred between whom marriage is prohibited by law.
· Incurable mental illness.