Law: No Divorce, Ever

In the April number of Columbia, the Knights of Columbus magazine. Mr. Justice Joseph Morschauser (also of the New York State Supreme Court—who presided at the Stillman case and other divorce suits) advocated the abolition of divorce in the United States. "Divorce," said he, "is a cancer in the vitals of American life. . . . From my experience on the bench I know that halfway reforms are ineffective. The only way to cure the evils of divorce is to completely abolish divorce." This he proposes to do eventually by Constitutional amendment,...

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