Woodford County Divorce Attorney and Mental Cruelty

One Grounds for divorce in Illinois is Mental cruelty. Mental Cruelty isn't defined in the law. The courts will consider the effect of a harmful action more than the action itself. To sustain an allegation of mental cruelty in Illinois, there must be more than one occurrence the law requires that the cruelty be "repeated." Illinois law also requires that there be no provocation for the cruelty. Mental cruelty isn’t always easy to prove. “Mental cruelty” has been defined as “a course of abusive and humiliating treatment, calculated or obviously of the nature to torture, discommode or render miserable the life of the opposite spouse, which conduct actually affects the physical or mental health of the spouse...” For further information, contact your Whiteside County Divorce Attorney or your Woodford County Divorce Attorney.