Bill Text: NY A06229 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6229 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the revocatory effect of divorce.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.438 [A06229 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06229-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6229
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 28, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. SEAWRIGHT -- (at request of the Office of Court
          Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Judici-
          ary
        AN  ACT  to amend the estates, powers and trusts law, in relation to the
          revocatory effect of divorce and relatives of a former spouse
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  5-1.4  of  the estates, powers and trusts law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
     3    (g) The revocatory effect of paragraph (a) shall be presumed to  apply
     4  to  a  person  in  any  relationship to the divorced individual that was
     5  based upon said marriage, including but  not  limited  to  stepchildren,
     6  stepgrandchildren   and  parents-in-law,  unless  there  is  substantial
     7  evidence of the divorced individual's contrary intention. Testimony with
     8  regard to such intention shall  not  be  disqualified  under  CPLR  4519
     9  provided that such testimony is supported by other evidence.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09740-01-7