DIVORCE RECORDS BROKEN
RUSH UNDER NEW LAW. [United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] NEW YORK, May 2. At Reno remarkable scenes wore enacted to-day when, under the new law for granting divorces alter -only six weeks’ residence, the attorneys stood in line from six o’clock in the morning lilting applications in the County Clerk’s office for clients who were seeking the termination of their martial relations. One divorce application was filed every two minutes. Before the office shut, over two hundred applications, chiefly by women, were filed. They will be board on Monday, and it is expected that tlie 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, under the Nevada law, may have a private practice.
()ne group of four brothers and sisters all filed divorce .and separation applications today, establishing what is believed to be a record even in America’s divorce capital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 6
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