VARIETY IN DIVORCE LAWS.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5516, 24 October 1919, Page 3 (Supplement)

VARIETY IN DIVORCE LAWS.

The divorce law reformers are collecting data from all nations with a view to obviating the moral shipwrecks of wedded lives. In Austria, it seems, “an insuperable aversion” is a ground for divorce- Greeks resident in that country have eleven different causes, including “irreconcilable hatred.” Belgium recognises six grounds, including a penal sentence and the “consent of both.” Bulgaria has two grounds and Denmark five—including leprosy and absence for five years. In France divorce is not easy, and publication of a case in the Press may entail on the newspaper a fine of £4 0. Germany accepts three years insanity. Greece will divorce a wife who goes gadding about without her husband’s consent to races, theatres and sports. Ireland has no divorce law, neither has Italy, nor the State of South Carolina. Holland hears her cases secretly. In Norway, the Royal decree must be invoked. In Sweden “extravagance” will count, and Switzerland accepts “incomnatibility of temper, rendering wedded life unbearable.” Scots law holds four years of “malicious desertion” as dissolving the marriage tie.