New Grounds For Divorce Opposed
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, November 24. The Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday opposed proposals by a Government-appointed law commission to make separation alone a ground for divorce.
Speaking in the House of Lords, the Archbishop, Dr. Michael Ramsay, described the proposals as the “wmrst of both worlds.
“I am equally opposed to making consent, as such, a ground for divorce,” he said during a debate on plans for a new divorce law.
“The present law gives us the worst of one world. The fashionable proposals for introducing divorce by consent or on the grounds of separation would give us the worst of both worlds,” he said. He referred to the proposal of a church committee he had appointed, that the “breakdown of marriage” should be the sole reason for divorce — sweeping away the present grounds of adultery, desertion and cruelty. Dr. Ramsay said he was aware of the evils and weak-
nesses of the present law based upon the matrimonial offence. “We do not think there is anything sacrosanct about it as a basis for divorce,” he said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31226, 25 November 1966, Page 13
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