U.S.A. DIVORCE CAPITAL

Grey River Argus, 4 May 1931, Page 5

U.S.A. DIVORCE CAPITAL

RECORDS BROKEN Rush Under New Law (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) '’ ' (Received May 2 at 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 2. At 'Reno remarkable scenes were enacted to-day when, under the new law for granting divorces after onlv six weeks’ residence, the attorneys stood in line from six o’clock in the morning filling applications in the County Clerk’s office for clients who were seeking the termination of their marital relations. One divorce application was fill'd every two minutes. Before the office shut, over two hundred applications, chiefly by women, were filed. They will be heard on Monday, and it is ex* peeted that the two judges sitting ; will grant divorces at the rate of one every ten minutes. With each application a twenty dollars fee is paid. Some of the lawyers filed as many as fifteen applications at one time, but the average was seven. Many prominent names figure on the list and the lawyers make up an important part of the city of Reno’s officialdom, including the Mayor and various State attorneys, all of whom. I under the Nevada law, may have a private practice. One group of four brothers and sis- * ters all filed divorce and separation ap- . plications to-day, establishing what is believed to be a record even in [America’s divorce capital.