Mental cruelty - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

In the context of law, the term mental cruelty is usually used as a ground for a court to grant a party divorce. Mental cruelty means a course of unprovoked and abusive misconduct towards one�s spouse, causing unendurable humiliation, distress and miseries so it impairs the complainant�s physical and mental health and it makes it impractical for the complainant to maintain the marital status.�

It is the complainant�s burden the prove that the acts committed by his/her spouse constitutes sufficient grounds of mental cruelty to justify a divorce. What constitutes mental cruelty depends on the specific facts in each case. While the laws about what constitutes mental cruelty may vary from states to states, usually a plaintiff has to prove that his/her spouse possess the malicious intent to cause the mental cruelty, such misconduct are repeated or persistent, and the plaintiff suffers both physical and mental injuries as a result.�