File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 367
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Montague, Doory, and Curran
- Entitled:
-
Divorce - Educational Seminar on Effects on Children
Requiring the parties to certain divorce actions, prior to the
granting of a divorce decree, to attend an educational seminar that is
designed to educate parents about the effects, and minimize the
disruption, of a divorce on the lives of children; providing that the
court may require parties to complete the seminar in a certain amount
of time; providing that the court may sanction parties for failure to
complete the seminar; and providing that the court may assess or waive
the cost of the seminar.
House Action
- 2/1
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/7
- Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/18
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
- Delegate Gerald J. Curran, District 43
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DIVORCE -see also- ANNULMENT
- EDUCATION -see also- SCHOOLS-PUBLIC, SPECIAL ED., HIGHER ED.
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION, DIVORCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY, JUVENILE CAUSES, YOUTH
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Family Law
- (
7-103.2
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available