AMERICAN MARRIAGE PROBLEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 3493, 13 November 1894, Page 8

AMERICAN MARRIAGE PROBLEMS.

t 'A- ; law 1 lieen passed in ' Pennsylvania which enlarges the powers of married women in acquiring and disposingproperty; States have created commissions to act together in framing a uniform marriage code .for all the States. The necessity! fbrhhis is often ex .... • i 5 • . ii emplitied. A case m point occurred aPhilftdolpliian andobtkiried iVoirce, his wife, being- stijl a \ resident of Philadelphia, Returning he marriejd a Philatlelphian widow, Subsequently the legality 5 of We^deCTe^ot'diWrce on the ground that she had received i]o notice of proceedings. The Ohio Courts did hot Bupp6irt ll he)p contention, and 'the 'divorce was maintained. The first jW.ife; appealed in the Pennsylvania courts for support from her' husbatid.' ■ The Pennsylvania Court did not regard the Ohio divorce as Valid in Pennsylvania, and ordered the 1 husband to pay five dollars a week for the support of his wife.' Thus the man found himsnlf possessed of two legal wives, whom he was bound to support, and with whom he was legally entitled to live. The judge gave as his opinion that he could not be prose-, cuted for . bigamy in Pennsylvania, as the deed was not committed in the State ;and could not in Ohio, as there the marriage was legal* -astlie divorce was gfanted there; and that it is tpossibto for a mah to have diforced wives in various ( States that are only considered legal in hose States, and yet net be liable