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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arturo del Toro is not, and does not claim to be, a lawyer. He is a mine operator and rancher in the State of Sonora, Mexico...
...noticed that times were growing especially hard for persons unhappily married. Throughout the U. S., courts were denying the legality of decrees 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...
...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 in the U. S. he or she should recognize the jurisdiction of the court by a power of attorney...
...government considers that Seņor de la Mora is in open rebellion, since the place in which he keeps himself is not even known, and that he is one of the probable directors of the armed movement of Catholic fanatics in the State of Jalisco...