SB 519

  • Virginia Senate Bill
  • 2025 Regular Session
  • Introduced in Senate Jan 09, 2024
  • Senate
  • House
  • Governor

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

Abstract

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.

A BILL to amend and reenact ยง 20-91 of the Code of Virginia, relating to grounds for divorce; cruelty, abuse, desertion, or abandonment; waiting period. 24103825D

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Nov 19, 2024

Senate

Left in Courts of Justice

Feb 07, 2024

Senate

Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (13-Y 2-N)

Jan 09, 2024

Senate

Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103825D

Senate

Referred to Committee on the Courts of Justice

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