Petitions Filed as Divorce Law Comes Into Effect
From Times Wire Reports
A 48-year-old woman became the first person to file for divorce in Chile, a heavily Roman Catholic country that had been the last in South America with no divorce law.
Maria Victoria Torres, a beauty parlor assistant married for 25 years, based her request for divorce on what she called “years of continued violence” by her husband, from whom she has been separated for months. The couple have two grown children.
Some others filed for divorce at courts around the country, although the avalanche of petitions many predicted did not occur.
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