Word: del
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtained in certain Mexican states, previously havens for the fretfully wedded. Some Reno divorces were even questioned. And the French government, having discovered that U. S. divorces were bringing Paris much questionable publicity, and money for no one but U. S. lawyers, had drastically stiffened French requirements. Therefore Arturo del Toro determined to do something for persons shackled to distasteful mates; something also for the State of Sonora, and something for himself...
...Rancher del Toro held a conference with the best known divorce lawyers in the U. S. Stuffing the results into a formidable briefcase, he returned to Sonora, where with practically no trouble the Sonora Congress was persuaded to change the divorce laws of the State to read in this sense: A) Any ground for divorce recognized by any State in the U. S. is cause for divorce in Sonora. B) Three new grounds were added: 1) Mutual consent (Senor del Toro avoids this ground because U. S. courts might consider that it smacks of collusion). 2) Irreconcilable incompatibility. 3) Absence...
Rumors to the contrary, it is not true that a man or woman can obtain a Sonora divorce in a week, or that neither the plaintiff nor defendant need appear. The average time for a Sonora-del Toro divorce is two months from the initiation of the suit in the Señor's New York office. The plaintiff must appear in person, in Sonora, and must remain in the State for 48 hours. Only in exceptional cases can this be avoided. The defendant need not appear per sonally. But to strengthen the legality of the Sonora decree...
...Quick action without public washing of 'soiled linen' and without ruining the defendant's character, that is my motto!" says Señor del Toro...
...del Toro mentions darkly that although he has obtained several hundred decrees in Sonora courts in the past four years, the only attempt to attack their validity in this country was recently made in the court of famed Judge Joseph Sabath of Chicago who upheld the Sonora-del Toro decree...