This page provides library resources and links to Ohio laws about divorce. Please refer to the Divorce without Children and the Divorce with Children tabs of this guide for legal forms for obtaining a divorce.
Please refer to the Ohio Dissolution of Marriage guide on this website for forms and information about obtaining a dissolution.
Attorneys with a Franklin County Law Library card may check out these books. Other members of the public may use them in the Franklin County Law Library. The Library maintains the current edition of each of these books, unless otherwise noted.
Anderson's Ohio Family Law by 
Baldwin's Ohio Domestic Relations Law by 
Child Custody & Visitation: Law and Practice by 
Collaborative Law: Achieving Effective Resolution in Divorce without Litigation by 
Complete QDRO Handbook: Dividing ERISA, Military, and Civil Service Pensions and Collection Child Support from Employee Benefit Plans by 
Domestic Relations Journal of Ohio by 
Family Law and Practice by 
Family Law Checklists by 
Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce by 
Ohio Domestic Relations Practice Manual by 
Ohio Domestic Violence Law by 
Ohio Family Law Handbook by 
Ohio Family Law Institute by OSBA members who have attended any OSBA seminar, have access to this as an an ebook after logging in.
Psychological Experts in Divorce Actions by 
Qualified Domestic Relations Orders by 
Valuation and Distribution of Marital Property by 
Valuation of Divorce Assets by 
Valuation Strategies in Divorce by The court of common pleas may grant divorces for the following causes:
(A) Either party had a husband or wife living at the time of the marriage from which the divorce is sought;
(B) Willful absence of the adverse party for one year;
(C) Adultery;
(D) Extreme cruelty;
(E) Fraudulent contract;
(F) Any gross neglect of duty;
(G) Habitual drunkenness;
(H) Imprisonment of the adverse party in a state or federal correctional institution at the time of filing the complaint;
(I) Procurement of a divorce outside this state, by a husband or wife, by virtue of which the party who procured it is released from the obligations of the marriage, while those obligations remain binding upon the other party;
(J) On the application of either party, when husband and wife have, without interruption for one year, lived separate and apart without cohabitation;
(K) Incompatibility, unless denied by either party.
