Sangamon County Divorce Attorney and Mental Cruelty

Mental cruelty isn't defined in the law. The courts, in fact, tend to consider the effect of a harmful action more than the action itself. To sustain an allegation of mental cruelty, there must be more than one occurrence B the law requires that the cruelty be "repeated." The law also requires that there be no provocation for the cruelty. Mental cruelty isn’t always easy to prove. “Mental cruelty” has been defined as “a course of abusive and humiliating treatment, calculated or obviously of the nature to torture, discommode or render miserable the life of the opposite spouse, which conduct actually affects the physical or mental health of the spouse...” For further information, contact your Sangamon County Divorce Attorney or your Macoupin County Divorce Attorney.