FRENCH AMY BOCK
ASTONISHING PARIS CASE LONDON, July 24. The Morning Post’s Paris correspondent states that an astonishing divorce suit was heard in the courts. The principal party was registered as a girl in accordance with medical certificate of birth, but later she developed male characteristics. When she married in 1921, she borrowed her brother’s’ identity papers in order to overcome legal obstacles due to the fact that she was officially of the female sex. The marriage thus took place. The husband had served in the war. Later the wife brought a petition for divorce, whereupon the husband produced the birth certificate and forced the Court to hold that misconduct was impossible as both parties were proved to be women. The wife’s counsel pleaded that this was an absurdity, but the Court pointed out that the civil code ordained that questions of this kind could not be considered after six months of marriage.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19368, 27 July 1925, Page 9
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