Arizona 2022 2022 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HB2104 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/10/2022

                    REFERENCE TITLE: community property award; convicted spouse             State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session 2022           HB 2104           Introduced by  Representative Griffin        AN ACT   Amending section 25-318.02, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to COMMUNITY property.     (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)   

 

 

 

REFERENCE TITLE: community property award; convicted spouse
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session 2022
HB 2104
Introduced by  Representative Griffin

REFERENCE TITLE: community property award; convicted spouse

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

 

 

 

HB 2104

 

Introduced by 

Representative Griffin

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending section 25-318.02, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to COMMUNITY property.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 25-318.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE25-318.02. Convicted spouse; award of community property; definition A. In an action described in section 25-318, subsection A, the court shall not award any community property to a convicted spouse. B. If one spouse is required to make ongoing installment payments to a convicted spouse pursuant to a division of property as described in section 25-318, the spouse making the installment payments may petition the court for a modification of to modify or cancel that ongoing payment. C. For the purposes of this section, "convicted spouse" means a person who is convicted of an offense and who is sentenced to at least eighty years in prison or to life in prison, with or without the possibility of parole. END_STATUTE 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 25-318.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE25-318.02. Convicted spouse; award of community property; definition

A. In an action described in section 25-318, subsection A, the court shall not award any community property to a convicted spouse.

B. If one spouse is required to make ongoing installment payments to a convicted spouse pursuant to a division of property as described in section 25-318, the spouse making the installment payments may petition the court for a modification of to modify or cancel that ongoing payment.

C. For the purposes of this section, "convicted spouse" means a person who is convicted of an offense and who is sentenced to at least eighty years in prison or to life in prison, with or without the possibility of parole. END_STATUTE