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 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
 SESSION 2025
-S 1
-SENATE BILL 626
+S D
+SENATE BILL DRS45284-NJ-32
 
 Short Title: Domestic Violence Divorce Reform Act. (Public)
 Sponsors: Senators Bradley, Grafstein, and Smith (Primary Sponsors).
-Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
-March 26, 2025
-*S626-v-1*
+Referred to:
+
+*DRS45284-NJ-32*
 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
-AN ACT TO AMEND SEPA RATION LAWS FOR ABSO LUTE DIVORCE AND TO 2
+AN ACT TO AMEND SEPARATION LAWS FOR ABSOLUTE DIVORC E AND TO 2
 ABOLISH THE COMMON LAW CIVIL ACTIONS OF ALIENATION OF AFFECTION 3
 AND CRIMINAL CONVERSATION. 4
 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
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 applicant has sought assistance in dealing with the alleged domestic 31
 violence. 32
 (d) A divorce under this section shall not be barred to either party by any defense or plea 33
-based upon any provisio n of G.S.  50-7, a plea of res judicata , or a plea of recrimination. 34
+based upon any provision of G.S. 50-7, a plea of res judicata , or a plea of recrimination. 34
 Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 50-11, or of the common law, a divorce under this section 35
+FILED SENATE
+Mar 25, 2025
+S.B. 626
+PRINCIPAL CLERK
 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
-Page 2  Senate Bill 626-First Edition
+Page 2  DRS45284-NJ-32
 shall not affect the rights of a dependent spouse with respect to alimony which have been asserted 1
 in the action or any other pending action. 2
 (e) Whether there has been a resumption of marital relations during the period of 3
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 therein as grounds for divorce, except in actions for divorce from bed and board, have existed to 14
 his or her knowledge for at least six months prior to the filing of the complaint: Provided, 15
 however, that if the cause for divorce is one-year six-month separation, then it shall not be 16
-necessary to allege in the complaint that th e grounds for divorce have existed for at least six 17
+necessary to allege in the complaint that the grounds for divorce have existed for at least six 17
 months prior to the filing of the complaint; it being the purpose of this proviso to permit a divorce 18
 after such separation of one year six months without awaiting an additional six months for filing 19
 the complaint: Provided, further, that if the complainant is a nonresident of the State action shall 20
-be brought in the county of the defendant's residence, and summons served upon the defendant 21
-personally or service of summons accepted by the defendant persona lly in the manner provided 22
+be brought in the county of the defendant 's residence, and summons served upon the defendant 21
+personally or service of summons accepted by the defendant personally in the manner provided 22
 in G.S. 1A-1, Rule 4(j)(1). Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any suit or action 23
 for divorce heretofore instituted by a nonresident of this State in which the defendant was 24
 personally served with summons or in which the defendant personally accepted service of the 25
 summons and the case was tried and final judgment entered in a court of this State in a county 26
-other than the county of the defendant's residence, is hereby validated and declared to be legal 27
+other than the county of the defendant 's residence, is hereby validated and declared to be legal 27
 and proper, the same as if the suit or action for divorce had been brought in the county of the 28
 defendant's residence. 29
 …." 30