The wife must obey her husband in domestic concerns, in the matter of training and educating the children of the marriage and in all affairs connected with the common property and the household. If the wife has property of her own she must furnish alimentation (food, clothing and lodging) to her husband when he is in want and cannot obtain it for himself. If a husband proposes to leave the Republic to live in a foreign land the wife may apply to the courts to be relieved from the usual duty of adopting her husband's residence. The husband is the legitimate representative and manager of all of the property of the marriage. He is ordinarily his wife's representative in legal proceedings. A wife generally cannot appear either personally or by attorney in a suit at law without her husband's authorization in writing. If she is of full age a wife does not require her husband's authorization in the following instances: A. To defend herself in a criminal action. B. To bring a suit against her husband. C. To devise or bequeath her own separate property by a will. D. When her husband is in what the Mexican lawyers call a state of interdiction, as, for example, when he is under guardianship or insane. E. When she is in business on her separate account and the suit or proceeding relates to such business. DIVORCE.--It is in the chapter of the Civil Code entitled "_Del divorcio_" that we find the statutory provisions concerning divorce. The chapter begins by stating positively that divorce (_divorcio_) does not dissolve the bonds of matrimony. We must remember that the Federal Code is founded upon the Spanish Code, and that both Mexico and Spain, being historically Roman Catholic countries, reflect the leading dogmas of the Catholic Church in their civil jurisprudence. What is called a divorce in Mexican law is at the most a separation from bed and board. It simply suspends certain of the civil obligations and effects of marriage. CAUSES FOR DIVORCE: 1. Adultery of the wife under any circumstances. 2. Adultery of the husband, if the adultery is committed in the conjugal home, or if the husband is living in concubinage, or if the husband's adultery causes a public scandal and attracts public contempt or insult to the wife, or if the wife has been ill used by word or deed by her husband's paramour or on account of her. 3. If the husband proposes or plans to prostitute his wife, or accepts from a third person any money, article or valuable consideration for the purpose of effecting such prostitution. 4. When either spouse instigates or encourages the other to commit a crime. 5. The attempt by positive acts by either husband or wife to corrupt their children or by deliberately permitting third persons to practice such corruption. 6. Abandonment without just and legal cause of the conjugal home (_casa comun_), or if there is just and legal cause for such abandonment, to remain away for one year or more without beginning a suit for divorce.