DIVORCE REGULATIONS.
THE AMENDING BILL.
PASSES SECOND BEADING
(Special to "Northern Advocate.") WELLINGTON, This Day. The Divorce Amendment Bill was read a second time in the Legislative Council yesterday by 25 votes to four. This Bill 'modifies the provision made last year for divorce after fhree years' judicial separation or separation by consent. It provides that the Court shall not grant divorce on the petition of a party whose conduct caused the separation, if an innocent party objects. Tho Attorney-General said that the Government felt that the law of last year had gone too for and made divorce too easy. Several members of the Council objected to the amendment on the ground thr.t it would maintain marriages that had ceased to have any real meaning and that it would give a vindictive person power to prevent the other party getting a divorce, even when the Court, in the light of all the circumstances, thought divorce desirable.
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Northern Advocate, 19 January 1922, Page 5
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156DIVORCE REGULATIONS. Northern Advocate, 19 January 1922, Page 5
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