In general, the validity of a divorce granted by one state will generally be recognized by the courts of every other state. Some exceptions to this rule are to be found in cases where the defendant was a nonresident and more particularly where the complainant in the divorce suit went to the state where the divorce was obtained for the purpose of obtaining such divorce.

A little over a year ago the law was thrown into a great deal of confusion by the decision in the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Haddock vs. Haddock.1 The exact effect of this decision is not yet determined but it has certainly rendered a great number of divorces invalid in any state except the state granting the divorce. This whole subject of the extra territorial effect of a divorce more properly comes under the subject of Conflict of Laws, and will be discussed under that head.2