Bill Text: MI HB4704 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Family law; marriage and divorce; change of name procedure whenever decree of divorce is granted; revise to make gender neutral. Amends title & sec. 1 of 1905 PA 299 (MCL 552.391).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-09-15 - Referred To Committee On Judiciary [HB4704 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4704-Engrossed.html

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HB-4704, As Passed House, September 10, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL No. 4704

 

March 25, 2009, Introduced by Rep. Byrnes and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1905 PA 299, entitled

 

"An act to provide for changing and determining the names of

divorced women,"

 

by amending the title and section 1 (MCL 552.391).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

TITLE

 

     An act to provide for changing and determining the names of

 

divorced women individuals.

 

     Sec. 1. The circuit courts of this state, whenever a decree In

 

a judgment of divorce, is granted, a court may, at the instance of

 

the woman request of a party, whether complainant plaintiff or

 

defendant, decree to restore to her her the party the party's birth

 

name, or the surname she the party legally bore prior to her the

 

marriage, to the husband in the divorce action, or allow her the

 

party to adopt another surname if the change is not sought with any

 

fraudulent or evil intent.