Grounds

• Irretrievable breakdown, living apart due to incompatibility, adultery, fraud, one year willful desertion, seven years absence, intolerable cruelty, one year's imprisonment and confinement to a mental hospital for five years are some of the grounds for divorce in Connecticut.
  
  

Defenses

• Recrimination (that the spouse that filed for divorce is doing the same things as the accused spouse is doing) and condoning or forgiving the conduct leading to filing for divorce were once defenses to a Connecticut divorce proceeding but have been abolished.
  
  

Jurisdiction

• Connecticut courts have jurisdiction over a divorce proceeding if at least one party to the divorce has resided in Connecticut for at least one year, lived there at the time of the marriage and returned with the intention of staying or the cause for the divorce arose after either party came to Connecticut.