NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 190

HOUSE BILL 197

AN ACT TO AMEND NORTH CAROLINA G.S. 50-11(c) TO PROVIDE THAT DIVORCE NOT AFFECT ALIMONY RIGHTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 50-11(c) is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 50-11(c). Except in case of divorce obtained with personal service on the defendant spouse, either within or without the State, upon the grounds of the adultery of the dependant spouse, a decree of absolute divorce shall not impair or destroy the right of a spouse to receive alimony and other rights provided for such spouse under any judgment or decree of a court rendered before or at the time of the rendering of the judgment for absolute divorce."

Sec. 2. This act is effective on October 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of April, 1981.