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Show RUSSIAN WIFE SUPPORTS il Required to Provide for Hus- band if He is Unable to j Work and Needs Help I LONDON. April 7. A Russian 'wife Is required to support her hus-, hus-, band if she be ublo to do so and he is unable to work and in need of, her support, under the marriage laws of soviet, Russia. A copy of thl eode, translated into English ban i'j.si reached London from the Russian Rus-sian people's commissariat of justice. It provides lhat married .persons! shall be expected to support each ; other. Should one refuse and the other bo what Is classed as a "need-1 ful." unfit to work, the latter has. the right to apply to the department j of social accural to compel the husband hus-band or wife, s the case may be. ' to pay support. Grounds for Divorce ' Mutual consent of husband and j wife or merely the desire of one of them to be freed from the other mayj be considered as grounds for divorce. di-vorce. Local Judges are authorized io hear divorce cases but their de-oislons de-oislons are subject to appeal. The matrimonial age is fixed at lSj for men and 1G for girls. 13oth musti me of sound mind and mutually do-' serious of marriage. Differences of religion or vows of celibacy are no I Impediment. Married persons may! choose to bear tlo surname of ih'o bride or of the brldgroom or. their Joint names. Marriages contracted in accordance with religious forms are not binding unless the union is registered regis-tered under the prescribed form of civil, or soviotlst marriages. Old forms of marriage law or, as it is termed, "the- legalized forging together togeth-er of men and women" are abolished. 1-nws of Succession , Under the laws of succession in ' the soviet code, nono but the "need-: ful" and the state may inherit prop--erty. The estates of emigrants and' of rebels are subject lo confiscation' by lh suite. |