The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 56, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1960 Page: 3 of 44
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TAKES FEW HOURS
Want a Divorce?
Head for ‘Bama
3 A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
CIA Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, August it. me
STORK NEWS
TIOM,
BIRMINGHAM Ala. (AP)—No spouse has consented to the di- from out-of-state on a quickie
matter where you live, you can vorce.
get an Alabama divorce in about
the time it takes to say, "So long, by ner auor
dear, let’s always be friends" his office
and at is Myour spouse is willing Lawyer: “You intend to remain had 4,878 divorces in 1959, com-
from have the price-usually jn Alabama and become a per- pared with 66 in 1944, the year
voi r I manent resident, don't you?”
, Maybe you won t even have to law. Their total was almost one-
leave your home in New York, Mrs. YM
At the airport, Mrs X is met
basis.
But the judicial circuit com-
by her attorney. Probably they go posed of Marion and Winston
counties in rural north Alabama
before the loophole got into the
I NO
runt
leave your home in New York. - 4. third of Alabama's 15.222 diverc-
Chicago, or wherever If you have With that little bit of dialogue es last year
the right lawyer, and he sees the the lawyer sidesteps any charge For the state as a whole Ala-
right judge, you can get your de- that he knowingly put through a bama had 10 317 divorces in 1'44.
cree by mail.fraudulent divorce action. then jumped to 14,770 in 1946 after
But that s the risky way. It Now the lawyer has three er- the law was changed
leaves you open to having the rands to run. until recently, opposition to the
divorce set aside if your spouse Errands to Run loophole in the law has been con
would have a change of heart He must visit the clerk’s office, fined to sporadic criticism from
later.-------- L- £1- *- v. Lin - mined to sporaQI €11.-0 rom
Six births were reported
Wednesday at Hendrick Memorial
Hospital
Boy to Mr and Mrs Clifton
Thomas 431 N 7th, at 2:15 p.m
Wednesday
Girl to Mr and Mrs. Donald
R White, 1602 S.. 9th, at 6:45
am Wednesday.
Boy to Mr and Mrs Roy E
Shake. 587 Ambler, at 4 02 am
Wednesday
Boy to Mr and Mrs J E
Rogers. Rt 1. Hawley, at 119
a.m. Wednesday
Girl to Mr and Mrs W L
Jennings, 742 Sammons at 5 25
pm Wednesday.
Boy to Mr. and Mrs Frank
Lopez, 729 N. 13th, at 2 15 a.m.
Wednesday
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netiie n * some pulpits, newspapers and a DOG HERO — Keg, a German shepherd, was cited Wednesday as the 1960 canine
“hero of heroes.’’ He pulled Karen McMannis from a flooded irrigation ditch after
4 11 inthe child had been sucked beneath the surface With Keg are Karen, her parents,
divorce ca is attention last a Mr a«d Mrs. William J McMannis of Bozeman,’ Mont., and airline stewardess.
_2_____ _ . Jeanne Webb of Miami, Fla. The award was presented in Chicago. (AP Wire-
At worst, you'll have to spend are clients of mine and they want instatement of the 12 month resi. photo)
■ few days in the state This is a divorce." dency |---------------------------------
likely only if your name is news The judge may be putting on A grand jury in Birmingham. Banyuwangy is a Dutch prov-
and your divorce—when the word his hat to go to lunch, but he stops recently recommended a 12-month tee Java Population is about
leaks out—is apt to make news- for the 30 seconds or so needed residency requirement. Church incedh Java. POP
paper headlines You remain a to sign the order of divorce, groups are going on record as de- '
few days, buy a vacant lot or Then the lawyer returns to the manding an end to the loose div-
rent a house or apply for a job to clerk, who makes out the decree, orce law.
build the fiction you are a resident It takes another 10 minutes,
of Alabama
Probably you'll have to spend complaint and her husband's mild outbreak of public opinion
a few hours on Alabama soil— answer-in-waiver. It takes about when a well-known personality's
nothing much more than a long 10 minutes. 1:-.nueen211. attention in the state
stopover between planes—to be He goes from there to the judge. . _ ___
safe. "Judge." he says, "these folks passed a resolution calling for re-
A bill was introduced in the
Mrs. X and Mr X now are di- Legislature last year that would
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gredients—the willingness of the All that remains is for the law- dency requirement. It never got
spouse and the price of the right yer to hand over the decree to out of committee. PASTEETH. a pleasant alkaline
lawyer, his client and see her to the air- The privately oft-spoken feeling (non-acid) powder, noids false teeth
a The privates spoken lecuns more firmly To eat and talk in more
port for the end of her short-lived of the Legislature is this: ‘These comfort, just sprinkle a little FAS-
. . - ----' -• people want divorces and they're TEETH on your plates No ummy;
loophole in Alabama s divorce She can expect her divorce to going to get them somewhere, so episte odor denture breath. Get
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Loophole ia Law
A third ingredient, a gaping residency.
have returned the 12-month resi-
law, was provided by the Legis-stand up because all parties con- why not here?"
lature in 1945. cerned are happy about it—and -----------—
Prior to 1#45 divorces for Ala- who's to contest it? a
bama people were just as much Probably nobody, but there’s
the quickie variety as they are still a possibility. The danger is
today, but one year of residence greatest when one or both parties
was required The 1945 Legisla-winds up later unhappy with the
ture changed the law to read sim-arrangements.
ply residence is required ! Just last July, for example, a
The courts traditionally accept judge said he would void the 1954
Intent to establish residence as divorce of a New York couple one
equal to the fact of whom has since remarried.
It was a door to a booming The judge, taking evidence in
business. a fight over alimony growing out
One attorney reportedly handles of the divorce, said it appeared
40 cases a week at fees ranging the woman spent onlv four hours)
about $300 and made 350.000 in a in Alabama and the husband
recent four-month period never was in the state.
Most of the clients are little- With some lawyers, quick di-
known people who turn to Ala-vorces for people from out-of-state'
bama for a divorce because the are a full time business, with
restrictions are too tight in their others only a profitable sideline,
home state Many lawyers won’t touch the
But increasingly in recent years business.
the laxness of Alabama divorce Judges who handle the divorces
procedure had attracted interna-simply assume that jurisdictional
tionally known persons—baseball s requirements have been met.
Hank Greenberg, television’s John Requirements Met
Daly, and Tina Onassis, who re- Circuit Judge William G. Lind-
cently divorced Greek shipping sey of Chatom in Washington
magnate Aristotle Onassis County near Mobile, who granted
Some of them are attracted by the Tina Onassis divorce in June,
the good chance they'll get out said she “met the requirements,
with little or no publicity from in my opinion, under Alabama
small towns in sparsely settled law "
counties. He said she showed the court
Alabama is tougher than many evidence that she was a resident
states when it comes to allowable „/ Mobile that she had a bank
grounds for divorce. Mental cruel- account in Mobile, and that she
ty and incompatibility—two of the had bought a residential lot on
favorite grounds in some states— nearby Dauphin Island, and
won t stand up in Alabama, planned to establish a home there 1
Ground No Hurdle She appeared in court with her at-
The most popular grounds for torney.
divorce in Alabama are physical It wasn't known exactly how
cruelty and threat of bodily harm, much time she actually spent in
But the grounds for divorce are Alabama, but one source estimat-
a small hurdle when both parties ed it at upwards of two weeks-
are agreeable considerably more time than most
Consider the hypothetical case out-of-staters take
of Mrs. X of New York City She Divorce statistics on file with
wants to divorce Mr. X as quickly, the State Health Department don't
painlessly and quietly as possible, indicate how many of Alabama's
Mr. X has no objections They are divorces are granted to people
able to agree on a property settle- ---------------------------------
ment
Mrs. X contacts the New York 1
partner of a law firm set up to
handle just such' cases. The New
York lawyer’s partner is in Ala-
bama. possibly in a rural county.
Mrs. X boards a plane for Ala-
bama. She either is bringing along
the bill of complaint prepared bn
the New York partner, or she will
pick it up from the Alabama
partner Perhaps she is bringing
along her husband’s answer-in-
waiver in which he denies the
allegations in her bill—as required
by law—and waives the right to
further action (
The answer-in-waiver is neces-
sary to show the court that the
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