Legal Information: Massachusetts
Updated:
November 16, 2018§ 2. Causes for divorce; confinement for crime
A divorce may also be adjudged if either party has been sentenced to confinement for life or for five years or more in a federal penal institution or in a penal or reformatory institution in this or any other state; and, after a divorce for such cause, no pardon granted to the party so sentenced shall restore such party to his or her conjugal rights.
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