CHEAP NORSE DIVORCE
It is easier to obtain a divbrce in Norway than in any other European country. If a married couple want to part, N/orwegian law grant® a divorce without enquiring into the reaeon, but as security that the step has been well thought over, it provides that a year of separation must intervene between the application and the actual granting of the divorce. The husband and wife have first to, apply to a Magistrate. He sends them to the Conciliation Board, and if this body cannot reconcile them they are granted a separation order. At the end of a year the Ministry of Justice is compelled to make the divorce final, if asked to do so by either party. The whole proteedings are very cheap, the cost ranging from about 5s to £5. '
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 14
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135CHEAP NORSE DIVORCE Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 14
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