The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-23
Large Number Will Be Affected
by Recent Supreme Court
Ruling.

BY LA ThRQUJ>E De FoNrENOY.
" VERY American woman wedding,
l., or welded TO. an Italian, snouli
IL take note OF the decision just
rendered BY the LATHAM Court OF
flnal Appeal As everyone Is aware.
clYorce does not exist in Italy. and
the dozen or SO " bills that have been
presented to the National Legislature.
with the object of placing a divorce
law on the statute book, have been
defeated by overwhelming maIorities.
Ins consequences has been that
whenever an italian subject desires
release from matrimonial bonds. either
legal dDm!clle on else naturaliza-
ton. would DC sought and obtained in
J. rance. switzerland or Germany. where
divorce is easy. After having obtained
In one OF these countries decree oil
divorce. the parties returned 10 Italy.
and resumed their italian domicile or
nationailty, as the case might be
Moreover they thereupon contracted
other marriages in italy This has
been done without let or hhldrance
Hitherto; but henceforth it w!n be
Impossible.
Some time ago Count Carlo C;uic.
ciardiri quarrolcd violently with his
wife. "A daughter OF Senator Moreno.
EnVoy OF the Ar8entine Republic at
Rome. owing 70 her objection TO his
attentions to tn. cX-Crown- Princess
OF SaXOny. Finally the couple mad.
up their minds to secure complete dis
solution OF their marriage. According
~ the count secured naturalization in
hungary. and immediately aftcrwar cls
a Hungarian divorce He thereupon
returned TO Italy, ana wishing to re-
cover possession OF his child. which
mad been awarded TO him by ins Hun
gnrian tribunal, but had been retained
by the mother who had refused 10 sur
render IL, he rc-assulnct his Italian
citizenship. and appealed to thc Ital-
Ian courts to enforce the hungarian
decree.
The matter has been carried from
one court to another in italy. until
IL has been finally decided that
tho Hungarian divorce has no validity
IN Italy since Count Carlo Guicc!ar-
DIM manifestly secured his decree at
Budapest for the purpose or rvading
feet Of this is 10 prevent either Count
carlo or the Countess from marrying
again. while II the couut wishes to
have tho custody OF his child, he has
police Tor its seizure. unless his wife
takes time by the forelock and oh
tains legal separation ana the award
OF tho child which IS all that the
italian tribunals are competent to
grant.
There are a large number OF Wolf
known Italians who will be affected by
this ruling OF tho Supreme Court.
ture FabbricCtt. who on the strength
of divorce obtained I'm France from
her Florentine husband, married Baron
Al!otti. formerly attached to the Ital-
ian Embassy at Washington. and now
Italian Minister to Mexico.
Happily. Countess Arturo Fabbricoi-
Il has remained In Europe, ana under
the name OF baroness Aliottr" has
been staying with Lord ana Lady Sack
VILE at Knole Park in Kent For
Mexican society and the foreign dip
lomat!c corps IN Mexico would be per
fectiy justified ny tho ruling OF the
italian court IN refusing to receive her
as tho lawful wife OF the italian Envoy.
Every American woman therefore
should take thoroughly TO heart the
/ fact that hcnccforth when she wcds
she becomes italian by her marriag &c
there can he no dissolution of the bond
save by death,
1t may be asked why this momentous