Bill Text: NY S06503 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the revocatory effect of divorce.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S06503 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06503-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6503
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 26, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. BONACIC -- (at request of the Office of Court Admin-
          istration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Judiciary
        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
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