Under the Canadian Divorce Act, there is only one ground for divorce, marriage breakdown. Subsection 8(2) of the Divorce Act limits the ways you can prove a marriage breakdown.
Marriage breakdown can be established in these cases:
a) if you and your spouse have lived separately for at least one year before the divorce judgment (although you may begin the paperwork anytime after your separation begins);
b) if the spouse against whom the divorce is sought has committed adultery or has treated you with physical or mental cruelty of such a kind as to make it intolerable for the two of you to live together.
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