Texas 2021 - 87th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3005 Compare Versions

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1	1		87R16782 MLH-D
2	2		By: Ramos H.B. No. 3005
	3	+	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3005:
	4	+	By: Cook C.S.H.B. No. 3005
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5	7		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	8		AN ACT
7	9		relating to annulment of a marriage on the grounds of concealed
8	10		divorce.
9	11		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	12		SECTION 1. Section 6.109, Family Code, is amended to read as
11	13		follows:
12	14		Sec. 6.109. CONCEALED DIVORCE. (a) The court may grant an
13	15		annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage if:
14	16		(1) the other party was divorced from a third party
15	17		within the 30-day period preceding the date of the marriage
16	18		ceremony;
17	19		(2) at the time of the marriage ceremony the
18	20		petitioner did not know, and a reasonably prudent person would not
19	21		have known, of the divorce; and
20	22		(3) [since] the petitioner ceased cohabitation with
21	23		the other party not more than one year after the petitioner
22	24		discovered or a reasonably prudent person would have discovered the
23	25		fact of the divorce and [, the petitioner] has not voluntarily
24	26		cohabited with the other party since ceasing cohabitation.
25	27		(b) A suit may not be brought under this section after the
26	28		second [first] anniversary of the date of the marriage.
27	29		SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
28	30		to a suit for dissolution of a marriage that is filed on or after the
29	31		effective date of this Act. A suit for dissolution of a marriage
30	32		filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
31	33		in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the former law is
32	34		continued in effect for that purpose.
33	35		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.