| 1 | 1 | | By: Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 2422 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 4, 2011; |
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| 3 | 3 | | May 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | 4 | | Jurisprudence; May 18, 2011, reported favorably by the following |
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| 5 | 5 | | vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 18, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to the procedure for providing a copy of the final decree |
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| 11 | 11 | | of dissolution of a marriage to a party who waived service of |
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| 12 | 12 | | process. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 6.710, Family Code, is amended to read as |
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| 15 | 15 | | follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | Sec. 6.710. NOTICE [COPY] OF FINAL DECREE. The clerk of the |
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| 17 | 17 | | court shall mail a notice of the signing [copy] of the final decree |
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| 18 | 18 | | of dissolution of a marriage to the party who waived service of |
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| 19 | 19 | | process under Section 6.4035 [by mailing the copy of the decree to |
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| 20 | 20 | | the party] at the mailing address contained in the waiver or [to] |
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| 21 | 21 | | the office of the party's attorney of record. The notice must state |
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| 22 | 22 | | that a copy of the decree is available at the office of the clerk of |
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| 23 | 23 | | the court and include the physical address of that office. |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 2. Section 6.710, Family Code, as amended by this |
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| 25 | 25 | | Act, applies to a suit for dissolution of a marriage filed on or |
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| 26 | 26 | | after the effective date of this Act. A suit for dissolution of a |
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| 27 | 27 | | marriage filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by |
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| 28 | 28 | | the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the former law |
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| 29 | 29 | | is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 30 | 30 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 31 | 31 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 32 | 32 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 33 | 33 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 34 | 34 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |
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| 35 | 35 | | * * * * * |
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