RUSH FOR DIVORCE
NEW LAW AT RENO REMARKABLE SCENES (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, 2nd May. At Reno remarkable scenes were enacted to-day, when under the new law granting divorces after only six week’s residence attorneys stood in line from 6 o’clock in the morning _ filling applications in the county clerk’s office for clients seeking the termination and of marital relations. One divorce application was filed every two minutes, and before the office was shut there were over 200 applications, chiefly by women. These will be heard on Monday and it is expected that the two judges sitting will grant divorces at the rate of one every ten minutes.
With each application a twenty dollar fee was 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 States attorneys. One group of four brothers and sisters all filed divorce and separation applications to-day, establishing what is believed to be a record even in America’s divorce capital.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 May 1931, Page 5
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185RUSH FOR DIVORCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 May 1931, Page 5
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