Divorce; grounds, cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment, eliminates waiting period.
Summary
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.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 9, 2024
Last action Nov 19, 2024
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4
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Committee
1
Jan 9, 2024
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
upper
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors
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