Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1920 — DIVORCE MAY NOW BE GRANTED [ARTICLE]

DIVORCE MAY NOW BE GRANTED

In Less Than Blxty-Day Limit, Saya the Appellate Court. A divorce may be granted by a trial court at a date earlier than sixty days after the filing of the divorce complaint, It was ruled in a decision announced by the appellate court Tuesday. The court may hear evidence and grant or refuse the divorce decree sought in a suit at any time after the return day named in the complaint, which usually Is about ten days after the filing of the complaint Courts of the state have been acting In the last six years on the theory that a divorce trial can not be heard until sixty days have elapsed after the filing of the suit. The appellate court, in affirming the action of the Laporte circuit, court In granting a divorce to an applicant twenty-four days after the filing of the suit, said that the act of the legislature in 1913, attempting to amend an act of 1873 to require the sixtyday limit, was void because the act of 1873, sought to be amended, had been repealed. The court did not question the legislature’s right to enact a law fixing t£e limit, but said such a law had not been properly enacted.