WomensLaw serves and supports all survivors, no matter their sex or gender.

Legal Information: Massachusetts

Statutes: Massachusetts

View all
Updated: 
December 14, 2023

§ 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.