Beaver Press | 1927-12-30 | Page 2 | Five-Year Marriage Contracts, Renewable, One Solution of Divorce Problems

F five ive year marriage contracts renewable one solution of divorce problems by JUDGE S BURNELL los angeles divorce laws tire re making liars out of thousands of persons who want nothing no thina C more than to be allowed to continue coutin ue their lives alone couples should be permitted to enter into marriage contracts for periods of five years renewable by mutual consent for additional periods divorces under the term terin marriage plan would be granted on two grou grounds elds aly t I 1 inconstancy and extreme cruelty I 1 division of property and custody of children of a couple desir desiring id g to separate at the end of a five year period would be settled by court decision the abolition of tire present interlocutory divorce decree is one of the ilia provisions of the marriage plan when a young man arid and woman totally unacquainted with the future arid and what it will bring im take an oath to love lionor honor and cherish each other for the elie rest of their lives they aliey are arc making promises that may he im possible impossible to keep present laws often force them in seeking a divorce to accuse each other of moral crimes often obviously mere subterfuges to comply with tile the law if unhappy married couples could look ahead and see a decent way out of their troubles I 1 believe they would be willing to put up tip with things until the time for relief came