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Show Plan of Companionate Marriage Is to Increase the Stability of Wedlock By JUDGE BEN LINDSEY, Denver. Companionate marriage every marriage is companionate. We merely mere-ly want to make marriage as it exists today a legal institution instead of an evasion of the law. We want to save the institution of marriage. The plan has been misinterpreted widely. Its salient feature calls for the abolition of the divorce court and the substitution of a divorce commission com-mission before which couples seeking separation would appear. In cases where there were children to be considered approximately the same procedure would be followed as is now the case, the duty of the commission being to safeguard the interests of the children. The question of alimony would be considered in relation to the circumstances and the relative financial position and earning power of both parties. Marriage is a custom the nature of which changes from time to time, and when the laws do not change accordingly the people simply nullify the laws by evading them. . My purpose is to make divorce more difficult rather than easier. By common-sense methods I want to increase the stability of the family, which appears to be breaking up in the present legal structure. |