Last Updated: Aug 10, 2026
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00:00:03 For a long time in Tennessee, if you wanted to get a divorce, you had to prove grounds. And by grounds, I mean you had to have some legal cause as to why a court would grant your divorce. One of the ones people traditionally know is adultery. You had to prove that there was some reason to a court that you two should be divorced. What Tennessee has done is put together a ground called irreconcilable differences. And the way that no fault divorce works is you can allege irreconcilable differences as
00:00:35 your ground. And if you and your spouse are able to agree to a resolution on all issues, you will sign two documents. What’s called a marital dissolution agreement and a parenting plan if you have children. under the marital dissolution agreement that lays out your agreement on the division of all your assets, all of your liabilities, and any alimony or other issues between the two of you. And it becomes a contract between the two of you that is accepted by the court to resolve the issues before the court. And if you have a
00:01:08 parenting plan because you have children that were born during your marriage that will lay out the parenting schedule who is making parenting decisions and the child support that’s going to be paid by one parent to the other. If you can agree on all those things and agree to a divorce on the basis of irreconcilable differences, the court will grant your divorce on that ground in lie of having to prove another ground.
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