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* "What Chance Have I with Love?" from ''Louisiana Purchase'' references this:
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* "What Chance Have I with Love?" from the Music/IrvingBerlin musical ''Louisiana Purchase'' references this:
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* The 1946 Broadway flop ''Park Avenue'' had a song titled "Sweet Nevada" praising the state's liberal divorce laws.
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* The 1946 Broadway flop ''Park Avenue'' had a song titled "Sweet Nevada" praising the state's liberal divorce laws. (Its lyrics did mention Las Vegas to facilitate a rhyme.)
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IMHO, "full faith and credit" is a better fit for the page on American federalism than the one on the political system.
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* Music/SteelyDan's "Haitian Divorce" was about a similar practice where people on the East Coast would go to Haiti to get their own divorces as Haiti was closer than Nevada, although this was less common as Nevada's divorces had to be [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem given "full faith and credit"]] since Nevada was an American state while Haiti's were covered under the less expansive "comity", which often wasn't granted by the states. Also, the wife has a [[SexTourism fling with a hot Haitian guy]] while in the country divorcing, from which results a ChocolateBaby.[[note]]In RealLife, Haiti has unilateral divorce, i.e. one can divorce from his/her spouse without his/her signature. Also, during the Papa Doc/Baby Doc dictatorship, [[http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/12/style/a-weekend-in-haiti-can-include-a-divorce.html this trope was]] [[InvokedTrope invoked]] and, indeed, [[ExploitedTrope exploited]].[[/note]]
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* Music/SteelyDan's "Haitian Divorce" was about a similar practice where people on the East Coast would go to Haiti to get their own divorces as Haiti was closer than Nevada, although this was less common as Nevada's divorces had to be [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFederalism given "full faith and credit"]] since Nevada was an American state while Haiti's were covered under the less expansive "comity", which often wasn't granted by the states. Also, the wife has a [[SexTourism fling with a hot Haitian guy]] while in the country divorcing, from which results a ChocolateBaby.[[note]]In RealLife, Haiti has unilateral divorce, i.e. one can divorce from his/her spouse without his/her signature. Also, during the Papa Doc/Baby Doc dictatorship, [[http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/12/style/a-weekend-in-haiti-can-include-a-divorce.html this trope was]] [[InvokedTrope invoked]] and, indeed, [[ExploitedTrope exploited]].[[/note]]
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Many old movies and plays about the fashionable upper classes will have characters travel to Reno, Nevada, to obtain painless divorces. (At this time Reno was by far the biggest city in Nevada, as UsefulNotes/LasVegas did not start developing until TheFifties.) Reno businessmen went out of their way to attract those seeking Nevada divorces with specialist lawyers and affordable extended-stay hotels. Eventually, as the other 49 states liberalized their divorce laws, thus making divorce vacations to Nevada unnecessary, this became a ForgottenTrope. (Well, not quite. Nevada is still used for these kinds of divorces, but today the main reason is to bypass the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_property community property]] laws of some states, most notably California. Another reason is to get the juiciest settlement possible; a notable use of this trope is England - which [[{{Irony}} ironically]] doesn't technically have no-fault divorce - using the process known as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_shopping forum shopping]]".)
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Many old movies and plays about the fashionable upper classes will have characters travel to Reno, Nevada, to obtain painless divorces. (At this time Reno was by far the biggest city in Nevada, as UsefulNotes/LasVegas did not start developing until TheFifties.) Reno businessmen went out of their way to attract those seeking Nevada divorces with specialist lawyers and affordable extended-stay hotels. Eventually, as the other 49 states liberalized their divorce laws, thus making divorce vacations to Nevada unnecessary, this became a ForgottenTrope. (Well, not quite. Nevada is still used for these kinds of divorces, but today the main reason is to bypass the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_property community property]] laws of some states, most notably California. Another reason is to get the juiciest settlement possible; a notable use of this trope is England - which [[{{Irony}} ironically]] doesn't didn't technically have no-fault divorce until the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 - using the process known as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_shopping forum shopping]]".)
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* At the time Creator/OgdenNash wrote these lines in his poem "This Was Told To Me In Confidence," the implication would have been clear to anyone:
-->''...If I tell you Mrs. Drew is off to Reno,\\
You are not to breathe a word, that’s understood;\\
For I said to Mrs. Drew\\
That I heard it all from ''you'' –\\
Oh, a little bit of gossip does me good.''
-->''...If I tell you Mrs. Drew is off to Reno,\\
You are not to breathe a word, that’s understood;\\
For I said to Mrs. Drew\\
That I heard it all from ''you'' –\\
Oh, a little bit of gossip does me good.''
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* Referenced in ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' (the beginning of which takes place in the late 1940s). Andy's cheating wife wants a divorce. Andy's response -- "I'll see you in hell before I'll see you in Reno" -- is repeated to the jury by the prosecutor, and is one of several factors that convinces them to find Andy guilty.
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* Referenced in ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' (the beginning of which takes place in the late 1940s). Andy's cheating Andy learns that his wife is having an affair, and she wants a divorce. Both she and her lover are killed shortly afterwards. At trial the prosecutor repeats Andy's response to his wife -- "I'll see you in hell before I'll see you in Reno" -- is repeated to the jury by the prosecutor, and this is one of several factors that convinces them the jury to find Andy guilty.
