NEW MARRIAGE LAW.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 601, 21 January 1921, Page 2

NEW MARRIAGE LAW.

DIVORCE MADE EASY. The new marriage law passed bj the Parliament of Sweden is charac terised in some quarters as the mosl progressive in the world. Its leading principle is “to make the position; ol husband and wife equal; thoil rights and duties mutual in every re spoct, and to make them both re •sponsible for homo and family.) Under this new Act the guardianshi of the husband is totally abolisheJ A wife may, like her husband, cho-J her own domicile, and s entitled 1 take her working utensils and p.J or the furniture. She may practß any trade or profession without ij husband’s consent, and has all libe* of contract even with her husbaiS Ihe parents are made joint guarding of lhe»r children, the only instano where different rights are accord! being that where a child posses M a fortune of its own. IrJ this the father is legal trustee. lions for divorce are the law as follow:—“ If both to dissolve their marriage, only to send in to the propel - '•tv an application for which is then granted far without any further When the year is out each parties may urge full not obliged to give any his or her demand. ii 'mediately granted. is dissolved through jicrty in which is right is equally parties. The court the parents shall takke children.”