NEW LAWS OF DIVORCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9124, 4 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW LAWS OF DIVORCE.

Within the past two years, except in New Mexico, new divorce laws have been passed, leaving South Carolina the only state in which there is no divorce. There are few states or territories in which now causes of divorce have been enacted, and, in many, causes previously existing have been abolished. Thus, in North Carolina a divorce is granted upon conviction for crime. In Oregon and Idaho the intoxication habit need be continued only one year to be cause for divorce ; and failure by the husband to support the wife only one year in Idaho and six months in Arizona; and so desertion need last only one year in Oregon and six months in Arizona. But impotence is no longer a cause for divorce in Idaho and Arizona, nor intoxication on the part of the wife in Arizona ; adultery is a cause in Arizona only when the party is taken in flagrante delicto.' In Oregon, a divorce for crime is denied unless prosecuted within one year of the conviction ; and in Arizona the " omnibus" clause has been repealed, In Rhode Island and Arizona either party may be a witness in divorce proceedings, and in Maine and Arizona either party divorced has now liberty to marry again at any time ; but in Michigan the court may decree against remarriage during a term not exceeding two years. In New Hampshire alimony may now be decreed to the husband. In Arizona divorce from bed and board has been abolished.N.Y. Nation.