Bill Text: TX HB3008 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to annulment of a marriage on the grounds of impotency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-12 - Left pending in committee [HB3008 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3008-Introduced.html
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By: Ramos | H.B. No. 3008 |
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relating to annulment of a marriage on the grounds of impotency. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 6.106, Family Code, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 6.106. IMPOTENCY. The court may grant an annulment of | ||
a marriage to a party to the marriage if: | ||
(1) either party, for physical or mental reasons, was | ||
permanently impotent at the time of the marriage; | ||
(2) the petitioner did not know of the impotency at the | ||
time of the marriage; and | ||
(3) the petitioner ceased cohabitation with the other | ||
party not more than one year after the petitioner learned of the | ||
impotency and has not voluntarily cohabited with the other party | ||
since ceasing cohabitation [ |
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a suit for dissolution of a marriage that is filed on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. A suit for dissolution of a marriage | ||
filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law | ||
in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |