File Code: Family Law
- Sponsored By:
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Delegates Grosfeld, Conroy, Cummings, Valderrama, Howard, Hixson, Kopp,
Heller, R. Baker, Pendergrass, Hecht, Workman, Petzold, Franchot,
Cryor, Frush, Goldwater, Pitkin, Menes, Parker, Snodgrass, Turner,
Hutchins, Hubbard, Shriver, Ciliberti, Mossburg, McIntosh, Brinkley,
Hurson, Jacobs, Genn, Dypski, and Marriott
- Entitled:
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Family Law - Grounds for Absolute Divorce - Constructive Desertion
Codifying constructive desertion as a ground for absolute divorce; and
eliminating the 12-month waiting period as an element of the ground of
constructive desertion.
House Action
- 1/25
- First Reading Judiciary
- 1/31
- Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/26
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Sharon Grosfeld, District 18
- Delegate Rushern L. Baker, III, District 22B
- Delegate David R. Brinkley, District 4A
- Delegate Barrie S. Ciliberti, District 39
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Jean Cryor, District 15
- Delegate Elijah E. Cummings, District 44
- Delegate Cornell N. Dypski, District 46
- Delegate Peter Franchot, District 20
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Gilbert J. Genn, District 16
- Delegate Marilyn Goldwater, District 16
- Delegate Sue Hecht, District 3
- Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Delegate Thomas E. Hutchins, District 28
- Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, District 40
- Delegate Maggie L. McIntosh, District 42
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate Mathew Mossburg, District 39
- Delegate Joan N. Parker, District 10
- Delegate Shane Pendergrass, District 13A
- Delegate Carol Stoker Petzold, District 19
- Delegate Joan B. Pitkin, District 23
- Delegate Mark K. Shriver, District 15
- Delegate Louise V. Snodgrass, District 3
- Delegate Frank S. Turner, District 13A
- Delegate David M. Valderrama, District 26
- Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- DIVORCE -see also- ANNULMENT
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION, DIVORCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Family Law
- (
7-103
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available
