Blackwell's Application
Blackwell's Application
5 Conn. Super. Ct. 190
Opinion of the Court
The petitioner asks for a change of name on the ground that she has been divorced from her husband and she offers in evidence the divorce judgment of a Mexican Court showing the divorce was granted upon "mutual consent" grounds and obtained after a week's residence in Mexico for that purpose, with no residence there on the part of her husband.
Such a proceeding is not recognized as a divorce in this state (State vs. Cooke,
The petition is denied.
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