Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-13
DIVORCE REFORMS"
 IN MEXICO LAUGH
 AT MARRIAGE BOND
Carranza Has a Program by Which Couple May Unite Marriage Knot Without Trouble and Start Over Again.

VERA CRUZ, Jan l2 General Car ranza had added to his program of tormr the granting of absolute divorce. Any judge in MeXico-if he cares to take the chance of Carranza reseat- ing himself in Chapultepec may now onnul marriage contract The law became effective on New Years day.
 Mexico has heretofore never granted more than a legal separation The new law not only provide for divorce with the right to remarry but makes the dissolution of the union SO simple that the mere agreement of man and wife to break their martial contract Is sufficient.
 lf the factions headed by Villa and ZdData and Gutierrez should not agree to duplicate Carranza's decree. or if Carranzta should fail to re take the capital and restore himself to power state of marital relations not diff fering greatly from bigamy may be expected in the territory now con. trolled by Carranza It is asserted however, that Villa. zapata and their followers are of like mind on the question and will not hesitate to fol- low Carranzas example
 Should the law stand. Mexico will be perhaps the most liberal country in the world in specifications of the causes for divorce In the case of mu- tual consent i; is merely necessary for the man and wife to sign a Hagree- ment stating that they are tired of Twin gtogether. providing for prope division of property and On edisposi- uon fthe children present this to a judge after it has bee nattested by notary and the judge has no option but to render the judgement that en- ables them to search for new mates.
 Unfaithfulness, cruelty and those offenses usually listed in mos tdlvorce laws as. reasons for separations are given but there are few unusual l features as well Abandonment on the | part of the wife is defined as "Aban- | donment without cause of the conjugal home, even though it be for a single night" Towards the husband the law is more lenient His absence iom home shan not be regarded as ! abandonment unless he has remained away for thirty consecutive nights. % The wife who refuses to support ] her husband when b eis out of work and when she has money, shall be ad. 1 judged as having given grounds to. . divorce.
 One restriction has been placed in 1 that section relating to divorce by mutual consent 10 is specified that in 1 that case the parties must have lived | together at least for three years . Cawauza commenting on bis decree. said that marriage among the lower classes was exceptional; that those
 unions which do exist rarely are le -alized. whether on account of pow |erty or the instiuctiye fear of eu
 tering into an irreyocab'e contract. He explained that in his opinion di
 yorce offered the best remedy for re ! ducing the number of ilegitimatC
 unions. which he admitted character ized a great part of the unions in Mex
 leo. He was chiefly concerned, how
 ever. in alleyiating the condition oI
 woman, especially the woman of the
 middle and lower classes.
 "It is fact" he said. beyond al
 doubt that in the middle classes tho
 woman due to special conditions ot
 education and customs is incapaci
 tated for successful participation u the economic struggle On this ac
 count the woman whose marriage has
 become a farce finds hersef the vic
 tim of her husband placed in a condi