( a) Physical Cruelty:- When a spouse cause physical injury to other spouse which endangers life and limb then it amounts to physical cruelty. Endangering the life of a spouse or any expectation for immediate attack of a spouse sudden or at any situation then court considers the incident to be physical cruelty.

( b ) Mental Cruelty:- any situation which creates by a spouse which inflicts emotional or physiological distress at any time on residing together is mental cruelty. Most of the cases in the family court filed under the mental cruelty provisions.

When a spouse deserts other spouse for a minimum period of two years or abandon other spouse without rendering conjugal rights is desertion. The court sees the facts are true then it grant divorce on this ground.

When a person undergone Hindu, Christian or Muslim changed their religion by conversion then court grant divorce. Mere going to other religious places doesn’t amount to conversion. The religious conversion should be in a legal manner. But Change of religion who undergone special marriage doesn’t affect. This also reaps benefit in Christian marriage when a non-Christian person who undergone Christian marriage changes their religion to Christianity then the above provisions won’t attract.

When a spouse attaining sanyasa or renouncing world or determined completely to serve any religion outside the marriage bondage, then it amount to renouncing the world and court on this situation break the tie of marriage by he way of divorce.

When a spouse is not known for 7 years then the civil court will declare them as death person as civil death. This usually happens when fishermen was not found after their voyage due to natural calamities. An FIR should be registered to such extent, if there is no complaint on man missing then no one can avail this ground even if that person relay not found for seven years.