The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-11-20
CAMPAIGN FOR NEVADA
DIVORCE LAM REFORM


, Announcement that an Initiative di-
vorce petition will be presented At the
next session OF the Nevada Legfsla-
ture has been formally made BY Bis
hop George G. Hunting OF the Episco-
pal Church of Nevada. The petition
provides that persons obtaining inter-
locutory decrees OF divorce in Nevada
must wait one year for final decree.
According to the advocates Of the
move to change the existing divorce
law, numerous signatures are being
attached to the petitions that are now
in circulation. The ave newly elected
Assemblymen in Reno are said to be
pledged to vote against the change.
but the proponents are counting upon
the votes of the Assemblymen In the
outside districts Of the State.
Declaring the ''inadequacy or the
Nevada divorce law q menace to the
reputation and social morality of the
State" the Nevada Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union has adopted
resolutions pledging support to the
initiative divorce petition at the COM
ing legislative session.
Copies of the following petition
have been sent to Eureka for sigma
lures. and are being circulated
throughout the State: aafl1
, IT, INITIATIVE PETITION
We, the undersigned, quali1ed elsc-
tors of the State Of Nevsd&, acting
under and by virtue Of Axzhae XIX OF
the Constitution of the STATE Of Ne
vada, do propose. for enactment into
law in the manner provided for In
said Article XIX Of said Constitution
of the State of Nevada, the following
to-wit:
An Act Concerning judgments in
Actions for Divorce and Matters Con-
nected Herewith. ss
The People Of the State OF Nevada
do enact as follows:
Section In actions for divorce
the court must file its decision and
II 1t determines that no divorce shall
be granted, final Judgment must
thereupon be entered accordingly. II
1t determines that the divorce ou1rht
to be granted, an interlocutory judg-
ment must be entered, declaring that
the party in whose favor the court de-
cides is entitled to a divorce, and
from such interlocutory Judgment an
appeal may be taken within six
months after its entry, in the same
manner and with like effect as II the
judgment were final.
Section 2.--When one year has ex-
pired after the entry of such inter-
locutory judgment, the court on mo-
ton Of either party, or upon its own
motion, may enter the final judgment
granting I'D the divorce. and such
inal Judgment shall (2) restore them
to the status of single persons, and
CD permit either to marry after the
entry thereof; and (4) such other
and further relief as may be necess-
ary to complete disposition of the ac-
tion, but IL any appeal is taken from
the interlocutory judgment for a new
trial made, final judgment shall not
be entered until such motion or ap-
peal has been finally disposed of. nor
then, If the motion has been granted
or judgment reversed.
The death of either party after the
entry of the interlocutory Judgment
does not impair the power of the
court to enter final Judgment as here
Inbefore provided; but such entry
shall not validate any marriage con-
tracted by either party before the en-
try of such final Judgment, nor con-
stitute any defense of any criminal
made against either.