THE DIVORCE STATE

Southland Times, Issue 21384, 4 May 1931, Page 7

THE DIVORCE STATE

RECORDS AT RENO. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph-Copyright.) (Rec. 7.38 p.m.) New York, May 2. At Reno remarkable scenes were enacted to-day when under the new law granting divorces after only six weeks’ residence, attorneys stood in line from six in the morning filing applications in the county clerk’s office for clients seeking the termination of marital relations. One divorce application was filed every two minutes and before the office shut over two hundred applications had been lodged, chiefly by women. They 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 dollars fee is paid. Some lawyers filed as many as fifteen applications at one time, but the average was seven. Many prominent names figure in the’list and the lawyers make up an important part of the city’s officialdom, including the Mayor and various states attorneys, all of whom under the Nevada law may have private practice. 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.