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Show Holt's Marriage Held Intact HOLLYWOOD (INS Although most estranged couples coma to court In quest of divorces. Screen 1 Actor Jack Holt has reversed the 1 usual procedure. He obtained an order declaring him legally married to Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet Wood Holt, despite the fact she divorced him In Mexico In 1932. Holt contended that when they separated he entered Into a property prop-erty settlement with Mrs. Holt on the condition that she obtain a divorce in California and not remove re-move their children to a distant state. Instead, Holt argued, Mrs. Holt secured a "mail order" divorce decree de-cree in Mexico and then sent their 18-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, out of the state. Holt demanded . that the property settlement be set aside. He was upheld by the court, which ruled that "mall order" divorces di-vorces are against public policy In California, and voided the property . settlement |