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2024 SESSION
SB 519 Divorce; grounds, cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment, eliminates waiting period.
Introduced by: Angelia Williams Graves | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
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HISTORY
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103825D
- 01/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/07/24 Senate: Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)