SPEEDING UP DIVORCE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 9

SPEEDING UP DIVORCE

REMARKABLE RUSH AT. RENO

LAWYERS LINE UP TO FILE

NEW YOEK, 2nd May. ' At EenOj remarkable scenes were en-, acted to-day when, under a new lawgranting divorces after only six week' 3 residence, attorneys stood in. line from, six in the morning filling in applications in the County Clerk's "office for clients seeking the termination of their marital relations*. One divorce application was filed every two minutes before the officq shut. More than 200 applications, chiefly; by women, will bo heard on Monday, and it is expected that the two Judges sitting will grant divorces at the rato of one every ten minutes. With each application a twenty-dol« lar fee is paid.' ■ ■ . . Some lawyers filed as many as fifteen' applications at one time, but the average was seven. Many prominent names figure, and lawyers make up an important part of the city's officialdom, including the Mayor and various State attorneys, all of whom under the Nevada law may; have private practices. One group of four brothers and sisters all filed divorce and separation applications to-day, establishing what is believed to bo a record even in America's divorce capital. I

Recently it was announced that the notoriously convenient divorce laws of Nevada were to be loosened furtlwr as legal amendments in other States having: the effect of reducing Rent's "tourist traffic."