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AMERICA'S DiVORGE SCANDAL.
NEVADA WILL' NOT DESTROY . ITS
"CHARM" ;
lleno, in the State of Nevada. U.S.A..
is • still to retaiu its attractiveness as
the greatest centre for divorce in the
whole world. .
The State 'Legislature, which a while
ago was considering a Bill permitting a
prisoner condemned for capital crime to
poison himself.if he chose, has •■now
distinguished itself. by defeating a. Bill
requiring residence, of one year in the
State for people seeking divorce.
Reno is celebrated for the large
number of Eastern society people it
contains from time to tiine._ By State
law'six months' residence' is sufficient
for the purposcs'of divorce. •
The defeat of the measure' was re
ceived with immense rejoicing. Tele
grams were rushed to New York and
other eastern centres stating .tliat Ne
vada's divorce law would not lie altered.
Keno attorneys declare that a large
number have been awaiting the action
of the Legislature, before deciding to
start for Nevada, and the'defeat of the
Bill means an influx of newcomers. • t
The defeat reminds a legal -corre
spondent of another peculiarity of Ame
rican diyorce.Jaw;-- A _nian. may practise |
legal polygamy- and escape7 prosecution i
if. for instanced diis wife obtains a di-i
vorce for desertion, in Ohio: If lie mar- j
ries in.a State having similar Jaws and.
then goes to New York, which lias dif
ferent laws, lie has two legal wiyes-d
For New York will not recognise the di
vorce. yet is bound to respect a ma'rrihge-'
'lawfully contracted in another--Stater
And '.which of the two is his legal wifo
is a problem that our own Divorce Court
has never been- able to solve.
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