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Legal Analysis: A person who is mentally ill after marriage can claim divorce, because a mentally ill person also has the freedom to marry. A mentally ill person cannot be divorced by agreement, but can only be divorced by litigation.

Legal basis: Civil Code of the People's Republic of China

Article 1076:Where both husband and wife divorce voluntarily, they shall sign a written divorce agreement and apply for divorce registration in person at the marriage registration authority. The divorce agreement shall clearly state the parties' expression of intent to divorce voluntarily and the consensus on matters such as child support, property, and debt handling.

Article 1079:Where one of the husband and wife requests a divorce, the relevant organization may conduct mediation or directly initiate divorce proceedings in the people's court. People's courts hearing divorce cases shall conduct mediation; If the relationship has indeed broken down and mediation fails, the divorce shall be granted. In any of the following circumstances, if mediation fails, a divorce shall be granted:

1) bigamy or cohabitation with another person; (2) Committing domestic violence or abusing or abandoning family members; (3) Having gambling, drug abuse, or other vices that have been repeatedly taught; (4) They have been separated for two years due to emotional discord; (5) Other circumstances that lead to the breakdown of the relationship between husband and wife. Where one party is declared missing and the other party initiates divorce proceedings, the divorce shall be granted. Where, after a people's court has ruled that divorce is not permitted, the parties have been separated for one year, and one party initiates divorce proceedings again, the divorce shall be granted.

If the spouse suffers from mental illness and needs to file a lawsuit with the people's court for divorce, if he is an intermittent mentally ill person, he or she can sue for divorce when he is mentally normal, otherwise if the mentally ill person sues for divorce, he needs to change his guardian first, and then file a lawsuit for divorce with the people's court through his guardian.

[Legal basis].Article 22 of the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China.

Adults who cannot fully recognize their own conduct are persons with limited capacity for civil conduct, and the implementation of civil juristic acts is carried out by their legally-designated **person** or with the consent and retrospective consent of their legally-designated **person; However, they may independently carry out civil juristic acts that are purely beneficial or that are appropriate to their intellectual or mental health conditions.

Article 1078.

If the marriage registration authority ascertains that the parties have indeed divorced voluntarily and have reached a consensus on matters such as child support, property and debt disposition, they shall register and issue a divorce certificate.

First of all, if a husband and wife divorce and one party is mentally ill, they cannot divorce by agreement, but can only divorce by litigation. Second, in the case of divorce, if the plaintiff in the divorce proceedings is a mentally ill person, procedurally speaking, the plaintiff shall first go through special procedures to confirm his or her civil capacity and change his guardian. If the defendant in the divorce proceedings is a mentally ill person, his close relatives are generally the first person, or the people's court shall designate a person from among his close relatives to participate in the litigation.

Finally, one party concealed his mental illness before marriage and could not be cured for a long time after marriage, or married him knowing that the other party was mentally ill before marriage; or if one of the spouses suffers from a mental illness that cannot be cured for a long time during the period of living together as a husband and wife, the divorce may be granted after arranging the patient's life, medical treatment, and guardianship issues. Legal basis: Article 1079 of the Civil Code stipulates that if one of the husband and wife requests a divorce, the relevant organization may conduct mediation or directly file a divorce lawsuit with the people's court.