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Las Vegas Age
Las Vegas, Clark County, Lincoln County, Nevada
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Hot Springs, Arkansas, anticipates a boom in divorce tourism due to a legal interpretation of the state's amended divorce statute, potentially reducing the residence requirement to 60 days, competing with Nevada's 42-day law. Former City Attorney C. Floyd Huff highlights a 'joker' provision allowing non-residents to leave after filing. The law takes effect June 12.
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HOT SPRINGS, April 3. (AP.) - Despite Nevada's new 42-day divorce law, Hot Springs is encouraged by the reported discovery of a "joker" eliminating a third of the 90-day residence specified by Arkansas amended statute.
By providing for easier divorce, this city named for its hot water springs hopes that the thousands of healthseekers who came here annually to bathe in hot water will be joined by others seeking to get out of it - martially speaking.
The "joker," as pointed out by former City Attorney C. Floyd Huff of Hot Springs, lies in the provision that the judge cannot grant a divorce until 30 days after the filing of the suit by a person who has resided in the state.
But, says Huff, after filing the suit, it appears that the non-resident may leave the state and be granted a divorce regardless of where he or she may be. The effect of such an interpretation would be to reduce the required period of residence in Arkansas to 60 days.
"This would make only two weeks' difference between the residential requirements of Arkansas and Nevada since the latter passed the six-weeks law," contends Huff, who declares the difference to be more than offset by Arkansas central location and its many resorts.
Chancellor William R. Duffy, who has sole authority to grant divorces in the county in which Hot Springs is located, withholds any comment on the law, which becomes effective June 12.
Meanwhile, the chancellor, who has heard many divorce cases, is preparing for the increased activity the new law is expected to bring to his court.
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Hot Springs, Arkansas
Event Date
April 3
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potential reduction of residence requirement to 60 days for divorce; expected increase in court activity and tourism.
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Former City Attorney C. Floyd Huff identifies a 'joker' in Arkansas's amended divorce statute that may allow non-residents to file suit after 30 days residence, leave the state, and still obtain a divorce after another 30 days, effectively requiring only 60 days total residence. This aims to attract divorce seekers to Hot Springs, competing with Nevada's 42-day law. Chancellor William R. Duffy, who grants divorces in the county, declines comment as the law becomes effective June 12.