Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-25 | Page 15 | American After Easy and Secret Divorces in Paris

Americans After Easy and Secret Divorces in Paris PARIS. June 24. (By the Assoclat ed Press) American lawyers ln Pans are being deluged with inquiries as to the procedure necessary to ob-j taiu a divorce in French courts, the correspondence. being provoked by the number of divorces of Americans which have been gr.inled in France recently. The absolute secrecj withj winch decrees are obtalneti appears to be the leaiuro that attracts, but! I French judges are beginning to set their faces against the growing prac-tice prac-tice of Americans of liquidating their family troubles in Franco. The courts' I stand firmly on two statutory provi-, sions that the applicant must havej 'a real residence in Paris, not a mere i make-believo residence, and that legal I reasons must exist why the applying apply-ing American was unable to procure al divorce in his or her own country. Secrecy as regards divorce proceed J ings here is guaranteed by the laws j prohibiting publication of details that j aro connected with divorce cases. it is popularly supposed that thou-1 sands of couples have been divorced in Paris without any other publicity than that traveling by word of mouth This secrecy is criticised by some students of the social question who think that publicity of divorcer would! promote better social conditions.