New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsAny wife who at the time of the institution of the suit has been domiciled in New South Wales for three years and upwards (provided she did not resort to New South Wales for the purpose of such institution) may present a petition to the Court praying that her marriage may be dissolved on one or more of the grounds following:
(a) that her husband has without just cause or excuse wilfully deserted the petitioner and without any such cause or excuse left her continuously so deserted during three years and upwards and no wife who was domiciled in New South Wales when the desertion commenced shall be deemed to have lost her domicile by reason only of her husband having thereafter acquired a foreign domicile
(b) that her husband has during three years and upwards been a habitual drunkard and either habitually left the petitioner without the means of support or habitually been guilty of cruelty towards her
(c) that at the time of the presentation of the petition her husband has been imprisoned for a period of not less than three years and is still in prison under a commuted sentence for a capital crime or under a sentence to imprisonment for seven years or upwards
(d) that her husband has within five years undergone frequent convictions for crime and been sentenced in the aggregate to imprisonment for three years or upwards and left the petitioner habitually without the means of support
(e) that within one year previously her husband has been convicted of having attempted to murder the petitioner or of having assaulted her with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm
(f) that during one year previously her husband has repeatedly assaulted and cruelly beaten the petitioner.