The Complaint for Divorce is the initial document filed with the North Carolina court. It is in this document that the filing spouse will request the court to terminate the marriage under certain specified grounds.
North Carolina is a "no-fault" divorce jurisdiction, so neither party has to prove marital fault in order to obtain the divorce based on a one-year separation.
As long as you have been separated at least a year and your paperwork is correctly processed through the judicial system, you can get your divorce.
One of the more interesting grounds on which one party can get a divorce is to ?Maliciously turns the other out of doors.
North Carolina also has an alternative, three-year separation period for divorces based on one spouse's incurable insanity.
If insanity is claimed as reason for the separation, that proof of incurable insanity must be supported by the testimony of two reputable physicians.
Every divorce case that is filed in the state of North Carolina must declare the grounds in which the divorce is to be granted.
