Divorce lawyers get used to hearing all sorts of reasons for divorce. They have included breaking wind too often, not mending the loo door, insisting that the family dog or cat shares the marital bed and (surely the most appalling of all) not douing the ironing.
I understand that a Leicestershire man has recently pleaded guilty to having sex with a horse and a donkey, this is referred to in law as "buggery". I don't know what his wife makes of this but could it be grounds for divorce in UK law?
Yes, it could. But not adultery, which is a common ground for divorce. To be the divorce ground of adultery it must be sexual intercourse between a man and a woman. So anything else cannot be adultery. The divorce would need to proceed on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour and I doubt any Judge would think it were not so.
The man is reported (seriously) as not having a stable address........
Andrew Woolley
Divorce solicitor