»Prokleta hrvaška baba, se obnašaš, kakor bi bila ciganske familije«

Ločitve v dvajsetih letih 20. stoletja v luči sodnih spisov celjskega okrožnega sodišča

Abstract

Based on the court files of the Celje District Court, the article examines divorces from the 1920s. In this period, applicable legislation was based on the obsolete Austrian General Civil Code, according to which members of non- Catholic religions were permitted to divorce and remarry, while Catholic couples only had the permission to legally separate. Divorces were procedural and mutually agreed. The spouses were permitted to make a settlement before court, unconditionally forgiving each other all wrongdoings. In the given period, more women than men filed for divorce. Divorces were most frequent among the rural population, typically because of ill-treatment by the spouse. One factor contributing to the higher number of divorces was the effect of World War I. The article aims to shed light on the causes of divorce by studying several actual cases.