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50guy said: Any infidelity, abuse, mental or physical, is grounds for divorce, also abandonment, physical, or mental.

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Hm... I mostly agree, but things get a little cloudy once you dig into the details.

Let's take a look at two scenarios:
<ul type="square">[*]Your spouse is in a horrible car accident and is left in a persistive vegetative state. Doctors say that although she's breathing on her own she'll likely never wake up, and could spend decades in this state.[*]Your spouse develops chronic clinical depression. She refuses to leave her room, sleeps all the time, barely eats, and doesn't talk to anyone anymore.[/list]Could these be considered "physical or mental abandonment"? Well... yes, by definition. But there's no deliberate intent in either case. The coma isn't that person's fault, and neither is the clinical depression.

But for me, if the depressed wife refuses any help, that tips the scales the other way.