The court will not grant the divorce if:

• One of the parties conducted him/herself in a way which encouraged the other spouse to commit the offence.
• The offended spouse encourages the action, agreed with the other spouse to commit the offence, or forgives him or her for the offence
• Note: the court will not grant a divorce where there is connivance, collusion and condonation.
• The purpose of this is to discourage people from agreeing to divorce over small issues and destroying the special institution of marriage.

• A husband may tell the court that the wife is guilty of adultery.
• A wife may tell the court that the husband has changed religion and gone through a form of marriage with another woman
• The husband has committed adultery
• Cruelty
• The husband was already married to someone else
• Husband deserted her for two years without reason
• Committed rape, sodomy or bestiality
• The most common grounds are; cruelty, adultery and desertion.

A couple married under the customary law may apply the customary law of their community to end the marriage.

There are no set rules and guidelines on how this divorce should be undertaken.

The divorce is done according to the customary practices from which the couple hails.