Bill Text: NY A07242 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Allows for no fault separation where the relationship between the spouses has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months; requires that issues of support and custody or visitation have been resolved.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - print number 7242b [A07242 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A07242-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Allows for no fault separation where the relationship between the spouses has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months; requires that issues of support and custody or visitation have been resolved.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - print number 7242b [A07242 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A07242-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7242 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 15, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE, BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to allowing for no fault separation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 200 of the domestic relations law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. The relationship between husband and wife has broken down irre- 4 trievably for a period of at least six months, provided that one party 5 has so stated under oath. No action for separation shall be maintained 6 under this subdivision unless and until the economic issues of the 7 payment or waiver of spousal support, the payment of child support, the 8 payment of counsel and experts' fees and expenses as well as the custody 9 and visitation with the infant children of the marriage have been 10 resolved by the parties, or determined by the court and incorporated 11 into the action. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law and shall apply to matrimonial actions commenced on or 14 after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03954-01-3