GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 613

HOUSE BILL 1144

 

AN ACT TO ABOLISH ALL GROUNDS FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORCE EXCEPT SEPARATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 50-5 and each subsection thereof is hereby repealed, except for subsection (6) thereof, which shall be recodified as G.S. 50-5.1 with the title "Grounds for absolute divorce in cases of incurable insanity".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 50-6 is rewritten by deleting the second sentence, and by deleting the letters, numbers and word "G.S. 50- 5 or" in the seventh line thereof.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1983, and shall not apply to pending litigation.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1983.