File Code: Family Law
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 160
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Taylor and Chairman, Judiciary Committee (Family
Violence Council), and Delegates Dewberry, Hurson, Arnick, Busch,
Curran, Harrison, Hixson, Kopp, Menes, Owings, and Rawlings
- Entitled:
-
Family Law - Grounds for Divorce - Waiting Period
Modifying a provision of law to provide an exception to the
requirement that specified parties live separate and apart without
cohabitation for 12 months before applying for an absolute divorce
under the grounds for divorce relating to desertion.
House Action
- 10/28
- Pre-filed
- 1/8
- First Reading Judiciary
- 1/29
- Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/10
- Hearing cancelled
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Casper R. Taylor, Jr., District 1C
- Delegate Michael Erin Busch, District 30
- Delegate Gerald J. Curran, District 43
- Delegate Thomas E. Dewberry, District 47B
- Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
- Delegate Sheila Ellis Hixson, District 20
- Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
- Chairman, Judiciary Comm.
- Delegate Nancy K. Kopp, District 16
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Howard P. Rawlings, District 40
- 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)
