VA SB519 | 2025 | Regular Session

Note: Carry Over of previous SB519

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-07 - Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Summary

Grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. Eliminates the one-year waiting period for a divorce to be decreed on the grounds of cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, or willful desertion or abandonment.

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Title

Divorce; grounds, cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment, eliminates waiting period.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2024-02-07 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2024-02-07SenateContinued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)
2024-01-09SenateReferred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-09SenatePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103825D

Same As/Similar To

SB519 (Carry Over) 2024-02-07 - Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)

Subjects


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Bill Comments

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