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    Special Provisions Relating to Divorce and Separation
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    SECTION 210

    Limitations on actions for divorce and separation

    Domestic Relations (DOM) CHAPTER 14, ARTICLE 11-A

    § 210. Limitations on actions for divorce and separation. No action
    for divorce or separation may be maintained on a ground which arose more
    than five years before the date of the commencement of that action for
    divorce or separation except where:

    (a) In an action for divorce, the grounds therefor are one of those
    specified in subdivision (2), (4), (5) or (6) of section one hundred
    seventy of this chapter, or

    (b) In an action for separation, the grounds therefor are one of those
    specified in subdivision 2 or 4 of section two hundred of this chapter.