WAIT FOR DIVORCE

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 112, 21 November 1938, Page 3

WAIT FOR DIVORCE

DELAY IN HKITALN LONDON, Aug. Hl. Hundreds of ;ire having to wait a year beiore they' can obtain a divorce. -Many will have to wait 18 months. jaw include women who were deserted by their liusabnds 10 or 12 years ago. and who hoped to gam their ireedom without further delay under the new A. P- Herbert Divorce- Act. l-our hundred eases were left over when the Law Courts were closed at the end of July lor ten* weeks’ vacation. This congestion is in spite ot the * Tact that the number of divorce judges was raised last session. from three to five. The delay is due mainly to the diifi- * euliv in working certain sections of the Herbert Act. 1 lie five -divorce judges are still considering in committee how to interpret, clauses allowing divorce for desertion or insanity. ■‘l know of casiys put down fast year whidi are still outstanding.” -Mrs. Seaton-Tiedeinan, lion, secretary ot the Divorce' I-aw Deform Inion, said. “Nuw they cannot he dealt with until the middle of October at the earliest. Most of them will not he reached tliis year. ‘•Then, there will he another six months to wait before the decree is made absolute. “They are, as a rule, unde fen tied —people who have waited for l fears for the opportunity to remarry. “in seme cases parents are anxious 1$ dt (l marry in order that children now tom t.be way may he horn in wedlock. lh-rau.-e ef the delay 'many children Th-I* may be born illegitiihate.”