Show DIVORCE I The state of Delaware has done a very sensible thing in relation t the subject of I divorce For many years that state has been noted as a gathering place for those married people anxious to dissolve the marital bonds which connected them in unwilling un-willing partnership but who through the stringency of the divorce laws in their own states could not legally break loose from the contract entered into It is notorious that the divorce laws are very liberal in Delaware and they are so still but the law recently passed provides that When an inhabitant ol this state Delaware shall go into any other jurisdiction to obtain a divorce for any cause occurring here or for any cause which would not authorize a divorce by the law of this state a divorce so obtained shall be of no force or effect in this state I all other cases a divorce decreed in any other state or country according to the law of the place by a court flaying juristiction of the cause and of both parties shall be valid hi this state And furthermore the law provides that No divorce from the bonds of matrimony shall be decreed by the court when the cause assigned therefor in the petition occurred out of this state and the petitioner was a nonresident nonresi-dent thereof at the time of its occurrence unless un-less for the same or like cause such divorce would be allowed by the laws of the state or country in which It is alleged to have occurred By this arrangement Delaware is closed to the divorce seekers and while it leaves the divorce laws of the state still liberal it practically limits them in application to the residents of the state for whom they were enacted and thus removes the scandal scan-dal which for some time has blurred the i lame of that state in respect to the laws touching divorce I will also be observed that the new law prevents citizens of Delaware Dela-ware going into other states where divorce I laws are still more lax breaking the marriage mar-riage bonds and then returning to live in the state of Delaware I the cause for the divorce were sufficient cient t obtain the legal separation in Delaware then the action of the courts in the distant state will hold good there if not then while good in the state where the divorce was granted i would not hold good in Delaware This may be a somewhat some-what complex arrangement but it will doubtless put a stop to people either going into that state to obtain divorces and its own citizens from going from thence to other states to secure them and it is one of the best methods howsoever compli cated i may seem of disposing of that question scandal ques-tion which is something of a national |