Word: dominican
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Since a liberalized divorce law went into effect in the Dominican Republic 2½ months ago, 220 Americans have participated in the brisk ritual-and poured more than $36,000 into government coffers in the process. The country's chief Splitsville rival, neighboring Haiti, has been in the foreign divorce business since December, and now records about 100 quickie decrees a month. Both countries are looking for rapid growth of the infant industry...
Heirs to Juárez. The Dominican Republic and Haiti have Mexico to thank for their new source of income. Troubled by the tawdry image of the Ciudad Juárez divorce factory, Mexican federal authorities last year successfully pressed for an end to the practice. Haiti's late dictator, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, promptly signed a quickie divorce law and the Dominican Republic soon followed suit...
Manuel G. Espinosa, 43, is the resident expert in the Dominican Republic's new divorce business. When word of the change in Mexican divorce law came down, Espinosa, a Mexican lawyer who had plied the Juárez trade for eight years, moved to Santo Domingo and eagerly awaited the chance to do business there. Now Espinosa is director of the city's leading domestic relations firm (otherwise made up exclusively of members of President Balaguer's Reformista Party...
McKay and Espinosa are persuaded that the island can attract even more business than Juarez did at its apogee. What they need, they say, is proper promotion, and the Dominican Republic has already snared its first celebrity. Actor Elliott Gould flashed through the court last month to dissolve his marriage to Barbra Streisand. "I don't want to knock Mexico," says Espinosa, "but the system had become too mechanical." When he leads his flock into the marbled courthouse, Espinosa carefully points out the crucifix in the court signifying, he says, "the presence...
...Adolf Martin Bormann, is also missing, but for more romantic reasons. The 41-year-old Bormann, who became a priest in 1958, has left the order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to marry. Bormann is waiting final clearance from the Vatican to wed a former nun in the Dominican order, so far identified only as "Sister Cordula...