NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 803
HOUSE BILL 938

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 1 OF CHAPTER 52 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES WITH REFERENCE TO THE EXECUTION OF SEPARATION AGREEMENTS BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 1 of Chapter 52 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately after G.S. 52-13, to read as follows:
"52-13.1.  Separation Agreements; Execution; Private Examination. Any married couple, both of whom are eighteen years of age or over, is hereby authorized to execute a separation agreement which shall be legal, valid, and binding in all respects as if they were both twenty-one years of age, provided, that if either the husband or the wife, or both, are under the age of twenty-one years, the separation agreement must be acknowledged by the husband before a Clerk of the Superior Court and executed by the wife before a Clerk of the Superior Court in conformity with G.S. 52-6."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of June, 1965.