From semi-easy to semi-hard here are fifteen states that run in the middle of the pack for difficulty in getting a divorce.
1. Mississippi:
Cost: 52 dollars.
Time for processing: 240 days.
Other: Mississipi allows a civil suit against your spouse’s interloper.
2. Kentucky:
Cost: 148 dollars.
Time for processing: 180 days.
Other: Spouses may live together for the two month separation period as long as they have no sexual intercourse.
3. Delaware:
Cost: 150 dollars.
Time for processing: 180 days.
Other: Six-month separation period is required, but sexual intercourse is allowed if it is “in an attempt to achieve reconciliation.”
4. Utah:
Cost: 310 dollars.
Time for processing: 180 days.
Other: Utah allows a civil suit between a spouse’s lover.
5. Michigan:
Cost: 150 dollars.
Time for processing: 240 days.
6. Virginia:
Cost: 84 dollars.
Time for processing: 180 days.
Other: Virginia allows “fault” divorce for sodomy.
7. Indiana:
Cost: 157 dollars.
Time for processing: 240 days.
Other: Indiana allows a fault divorce for two years of “insanity.”
8. Illinois:
Cost: 337 dollars.
Time for processing: 180 days.
Other: Fault divorce is granted if there is two-years of habitual drunkenness.
9. Florida:
Cost: 409 dollars.
Time for processing: 200 days.
10. Texas:
Cost: 325 dollars.
Time for processing: 240 days.
Other: At least one spouse must reside in Texas for six-months before filing for divorce.
11. West Virginia:
Cost: 135 dollars.
Time for processing: 360 days.
Other: Spouses married in West Virginia have no residency required, but spouses married somewhere else must reside in West Virginia for one year.
12. Louisiana:
Cost: 324.5o dollars.
Time for processing: 180 days.
13. Oregon:
Cost: 260 dollars.
Time for processing: 270 days.
14. Pennsylvania:
Cost: 316.98 dollars.
Time for processing: 270 days.
15. Wisconsin:
Cost: 188 dollars.
Time for processing: 300 days.
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