mental cruelty

As a ground for divorce, one spouse’s course of conduct (not involving actual violence) that creates such anguish that it endangers the life, physical health, or mental health of the other spouse. See EMOTIONAL DISTRESS. [Cases: Divorce 27. C.J.S. Divorce § 22.]

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