Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — Divorce Bill Offered in House Will Limit Divorces. [ARTICLE]

Divorce Bill Offered in House Will Limit Divorces.

Representative Cleary, of Marion county, introduced a bill in the house Thursday which provides that the only grounds on whidh an absolute divorce could be granted would be gross infidelity. At present there are seven grounds upon whiii absolute divorce may be obtained. The bill provides several grounds for limited divorce, including cruel and inhuman treatment, neglect to provide abandonment for a period of two years and conduct on the part of the defendant that makes it unsafe to live together; but on these grounds the right to remarry would be denied. Representative Cleary stated that Indiana ranks fourth among the states of the union in the number of divorces granted and that the divorces in a year are 25 per cent of the marriages.