Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nervous American exhibitors were considerably soothed to learn that their version will have "a happy ending." The monkey woman loses all her hair at death, and even her reluctant husband concedes that the corpse is too normal and unsightly to put on exhibit...
When Mrs. Martin Wolf went to court in New Jersey to force her estranged husband to support her, she got a shock. Architect Wolf, she discovered, had already divorced her more than a year earlier in Alabama. Moreover, she had "agreed" to the action. Her signature was on the papers...
...even a single day's residence to serve for purposes of divorce so long as the plaintiff claimed "intent" to live in Alabama. All a lawyer needed in addition was the defendant's signed agreement that the case be tried in Alabama. Mrs. Wolf says that her husband's divorce was even easier: some one forged her agreement...
...association has just held stern hearings in Geneva. Local Lawyers Edward C. Boswell and Jack Smith have been indefinitely suspended from practice. Suspended for two years: State Senator Neil Metcalf, charged with falking the residence of a New Jersey woman who got home just in time to present her husband with a divorce on Father's Day. Similarly suspended was Judge George Black of Geneva County Inferior Court, where investigators found a locked room containing hidden quickie records. Architect Wolf's own lawyer, Ned Moore, faces a further hearing in nearby Andalusia...
...foreign" courts are shown to lack jurisdiction. In legalese, an Alabama quickie is open to attack if the plaintiff was not a bona fide resident, or if the defendant's signature was obtained by threat or forgery. In one recent New York case, a wife sued her second husband for separation. He counter-claimed for annulment, saying that she had married him on the strength of a shaky Alabama quickie. He won, leaving her without support, let alone alimony. For years to come, such Alabama reverberations are likely to spread across the country...