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July 7, 2015, By kps3admin
What do the actress Rita Hayworth, General Douglas MacArthur, the illustrator Norman Rockwell, and the mobster Bugsy Siegel have in common? Each got a Reno divorce. Over the course of 70 years, scores of movie stars, writers, politicians, industrialists, artists, and celebrities of all types did the same. The press was as enamored of celebrity […]
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Reno’s divorce colony was underway by 1906, and many enterprising property owners and business people seized the opportunity to provide housing and related services to Reno’s temporary citizens. In short order, an entire industry developed to provide divorce-seekers an array of lodging options including hotels, apartment buildings, boarding and rooming houses, private residences, spare rooms, […]
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Although brief by legal standards, the residency period required to secure a Reno divorce was not an insignificant span of time. Whether six months, three months, or six weeks, it added up to a lot of hours. How divorce-seekers chose to fill those hours varied widely. For those with means, the residency period could resemble […]
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In the United States, divorce laws are part of each state’s civil court codes, which can differ widely from state to state. Over time, a handful of states with more liberal divorce laws emerged as migratory divorce colonies, where motivated divorce-seekers would travel, sometimes thousands of miles, to end their marriages. Divorce laws could be […]
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