Man beats wife for seeing divorce lawyer

(ANSA) - Naples, April 23 - Carabinieri military police are seeking a man who battered his estranged wife while she was on her way to see a divorce lawyer, sources said Thursday.
    The 35-year-old victim was attacked and beaten in front of her two children, aged five and six years. Bleeding from a head injury, the victim sought refuge in her lawyer's office until Carabinieri arrived and took her to hospital.
    The attacker, from whom she had separated two years ago, fled the scene.
    The victim had decided to ask her lawyer about the new law on quickie divorces, which was ratified Wednesday.
    It allows divorces within six months if both parties agree, and within a year if one or both parties go to a judge.