Show OMAHA A MECCA MEGGA FOR THE t r 1 Divorce Decree Is Granted for Every Three Marriage Licenses Issued SIOUX FALLS IS DISTANCED Easterner Ea Whoso Marital g Ar r. Are Unhappy Sock Seek rn lm Metropolis for or Relief Omaha Neb Jan C. C Nearly G. Nearly fino divorce suits were were Shied In the tho dl district court In Omaha In the Iho first 1 eleven months of oC 1906 or approximately one for or every er three th three e marriage licenses licences Es E's Is Issued issued Is- Is sued according to statistics ju Just t compiled complied complied com com- plied piled at the courthouse Up to tu Dec 11 11 marriage licenses had been Issued l In 1906 ut at the of County Count Judge Leslie and in the same suno period 84 divorce orce suits HUltS had been heen tiled In the district court In Tn nearl nearly all the tho divorce suits suits' filed decrees were granted These startling figures Indicate the growing grossing Importance of oC Omaha as a divorce center Within the last two or three years this city has become far more Important as a divorce center center center cen cen- ter than Sioux Falls S. S D. D and unless the divorce orce laws of oC this state are arc re revised revised re- re It I Is probable that Omaha will soon soot become the mecca for Cor divorce seekers from rein other states for Cor it is much larger and Is a more mote desirable place of ot residence than It Its rival to 10 the north Iii Pile File Suits Stilts The records show that a large majority ma ma- of oC the men and women who applied applied ap ap- plied for lOI divorce orce in the tho courts court heto helo In Inthe Inthe the first eleven n months of oC the year make mak their homes In the eastern state states but in order ordet to k get standing In th the courts and procure their thelt decrees of divorce orce the they came carne here and e established establish establish- ed cd a legal residence The laxity o of tho law that permits a of legal residence to be he e established In six months Is In n a large measure responsible responsible responsible sible for the rapid growth of or the divorce di divorce di- di vorce business here Another thing thine that attracts divorce seekers to Omaha OmAhu Is the fact that the city ell is largo large and prosperous enough nouSh to give them employment employment em em- while the they al' al are establishing legal residence and waiting for the th granting of oC their decrees The rapid Increase In divorce suits In the last few felt years ears has luts attracted the attention of or persons who favor Cavor more rigid divorce laws than those now on the tho statute books of or this tills state and a strenuous effort will bo he made lie before lo 1 the legislature at Its next ses session lon to se secure secure se- se e- e cure revision of the exl existing statutes statute on the basis of oC tho the model law tall recommended recommended mended h by the divorce congress which met In fn Philadelphia last fall Records Are re Withdrawn A At practice that obtains here nOl anti that is 19 cond condemned by divorce experts expert Is s s the of ot lawyers In withdrawing rom from the Jho public rues the records In Jn 11 dl- dl cases JY after uru r tho O t ulta are brou brought ht Many courts forbid 1 this practice but It never has lias been forbidden forbidden forbidden for for- bidden in Omaha and It is charged that tho the practice has encouraged the I bringing of or divorce dl actions action here hero The model law recommended b by the tho di divorce dl- dl I tore vorce congress contains a t. t clause p forbidding forbidding for tor- bidding the withdrawn of ot records in divorce suits ull and ami requiring that all files U us as well as ns all nil hearings shall be public It H I Is said upon Koo good 1 authority that thai many Omaha lawyers who ho make a n specialty specially of or suits hold hoM out a aI as asan an Inducement to divorce orce seekers to I come comPo h here re to bring their actions a promise that decrees decres may be procured without publicity It Is their practice to withdraw the Rhe petition and other ref reI re- re I f cords Immediately after aeter tiling filing the suit In this way the plaintiff to an action Is saved M the annoyance of or publicity Hundreds of or divorces orce were obtained In the HIP dl district court here last fast y year ar hut hilt the number this year will be bo greater great great- er than last Each year shows shoats u n sub sub- substantial increase over the previous lous year and the Pad end Is not yet yeL |