Bill Text: NY A10171 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring all parties to an annulment or divorce to remove religious barriers to remarriage within ninety days of filing for such annulment or divorce or be subject to a fine of twenty-five hundred dollars per week.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-22 - referred to judiciary [A10171 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10171-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10171
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 22, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Judiciary
        AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to requiring all
          parties to an annulment or divorce to  remove  religious  barriers  to
          remarriage
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 253 of the domestic relations  law
     2  is renumbered subdivision 10 and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as
     3  follows:
     4    9. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions two, three, four and
     5  five of this section, in any action or proceeding to annul a marriage or
     6  to  file  for  a  divorce,  both  parties  shall remove any religious or
     7  conscientious barrier to remarriage as described in subdivision  six  of
     8  this section within ninety days of filing for such annulment or divorce.
     9  A  person  who fails to comply with the requirements of this subdivision
    10  shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five hundred dollars per week until
    11  such barriers to remarriage are removed,  unless  the  other  party  has
    12  waived in writing the requirements of this subdivision.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    14  it  shall  have  become a law and shall apply to actions and proceedings
    15  commenced on or after such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15075-02-8