THE DIVORCE LAW.
Mr. CONNER introduced a bill (No. 1) to amend sections 6, 7, 12, 19 and 20 of an act regulating the granting of divorces, approved May 13, 1852, and providing for pending decrees in cases therein specified, and the time when this act shall take effect. Which was read through and passed to the second reading.
The bill proposes to amend section 6 of the act of 1852, so at to require a residence of one year in the State and six months in the county where the petition is filed: To amend the third specification of section seven so amended as to require abandonment for one year: To amend section twelve so as require a personal service of ten days only: To amend section 19 so as to allow the Court a discretion in all cases to make such allowance for alimony: To amend section 20, so as to entitle the husband to the same rights, so far as his real estate, only, is concerned, he would have upon the wife's death.
Section 6 of the bill provides, under certain restrictions, that a party against whom a judgment of Divore has been or shall hereafter be rendered, without other notice than publication in a newspaper, may have the same opened and be admitted to a defense.
