Divorce; grounds of cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment eliminates waiting period.
Summary
Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion,or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waitingperiod for being decreed a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, reasonableapprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.
Bill status
failed
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 21, 2022
Last action Feb 15, 2022
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Full legislative history
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Total actions
5
Key actions
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Committee
2
Jan 28, 2022
Committee
Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Jan 21, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
lower
Jan 21, 2022
Introduced
Presented and ordered printed 22103649D
lower
1 primary · 6 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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