Show I UlIjIFORM DIVORCE LAWS There isgoing to be an agitation allover all-over the country in favor of uniform divorce di-vorce laws Whether it will be possible possi-ble to secure action favorable to them no one can say There are fortyfive state legislatures and three territorial I legislature to be consulted and to get them to act in unison will be a very I hard matter indeed There is much diversity in the divorce I laws of the various states but there is 1 even more diversity in construing them In those states where the divorce laws have become as scandal to the whole nation the courts are quite as much to blame as the legislatures The greatest scandal in this regard comes not so much from the difference in the causes I for which divorces are allowed as from the fact that the courts allow the laws to be prostituted to the purposes of I those who find the marriage ties irksome t irk-some but who have no valid cause to allege i al-lege why a divorce should be granted The divorce laws of every state afford I ample causes for getting a divorce and when people leave their own state and take up their residence temporarily in another to secure a divorce they do it because they have no good grounds for their action and to defraud the law Of their own state The chief trouble is the very lax interpretation that is I placed upon what constitutes residence Going to a state and residIng there six months or a year for the sole purpose of securing a divorce and with the intention in-tention to leave the state so soon as the divorce is secured is not a legal residence no matter what the North Dakota and Oklahoma courts hold it is simply a fraud For years there have been those who have favored transferring to the United States the jurisdiction of the state in divorce matters They back up their position with some strong arguments This jurisdiction will hardly be transferred trans-ferred but it is about the Lsly way to get uniform divorce laws |