GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE
BRITAIN ALTERS ARCHAIC LAW BILL PASSES AFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS STRUGGLE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, July 23. (Received July 24, at noon.) The Matrimonial Causes Bill is now ready for Royal Assent. Us effect will be to add to adultery, formerly the sole ground for divorce, the additional grounds of , desertion, cruelty, or incurable insanity. The feature of the Bill is the first clause, which provides that no petition for divorce may be made within a given period after marriage. Fixed originally at five years, the period was reduced by the House of Lords to three, and this was approved by the House of Commons to-day, with discretion given to the courts to accept a petition sooner, in cases of exceptional hardship or depravity. The Bill has been 18 months in its passage through Parliament, and Mr A. P. Herbert and its other sponsors were to-day the recipients of mam' congratulations.
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Evening Star, Issue 22709, 24 July 1937, Page 15
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156GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE Evening Star, Issue 22709, 24 July 1937, Page 15
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