Upon the finding of a decree of divorce, if the parties have not reached an appropriate agreement, the judge will make such directions as to the maintenance of the wife, custody of children and division of common property as justice may require.
Foreign Marriages.—Marriages concluded between foreigners in a foreign country, which are valid in that country, will be recognized as valid for all civil effects in Mexico.
A marriage between a Mexican citizen and a foreigner, or between two Mexican citizens, and concluded in a foreign country, will be valid for all civil effects in Mexico, provided such marriage was concluded according to the law of the foreign country and is not in violation of the Mexican laws as to the prohibited degrees of relationship, capacity to contract and consent of persons in loco parentis.
Foreign laws (leyes extranjeras) must be established as matters of fact by the persons relying upon their existence, and their application to questions at issue must also be shown.
Within three months after a Mexican citizen who has concluded marriage in a foreign country returns to the Republic, he or she must cause the inscription of the celebration to be entered in the Civil Register of his or her domicile.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Argentine Republic.
The Civil Code of the Argentine Republic shows strong evidences of the Spanish origin of its precepts. As in the old motherland marriage is considered as indissoluble except by the death of one of the contracting parties. However, the Republic does not accept the decrees of the Council of Trent or the canonical law of the Catholic Church on the subject of marriage as parts of the law of the land.