DIVORCE IN PARIS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17131, 18 June 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)

DIVORCE IN PARIS.

EFFECT OF SECRECY. i DENIES LAW IS LENIENT. The general Impression that the yreneb divorce laws are more lenient Aian those of the United States is not a correct one, according to Mme. Suzanne Grinberg, French attorney and the only woman member of the Executive Committee ol the French Bar Association. • “The reason that so ,many Americans seek Paris divorces,” she said, “is that the French laws forbid publicity, and this prevents their private Lives from being aired in the newspapers. The French courts, in addition, are not unfavourably disposed to divorces by mutual consent, and it is much easier for poor people to obtain divorces in France, as the various legal aid societies are willing to give them assistance free of charge. I understand that this is not the case in America.” While in America Mrne. Grinberg spoke before the Bar Assocition. She said that she was the first woman ever, to do ; so. Asked if there were a prejudice against women lawyers in France, she replied that this had formerly been the case, but that now it was “very chic” for a woman to pass her bar examinations. “There 'are now 200 women lawyers in France,” she said. Mme. Ginberg pointed out that she did not feci that women should have any special privileges. Commenting on the Snyder murder, she would ask the extreme penalty for both Gray and >lrs Snyder.