Bill Text: MI HB4300 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Family law: marriage and divorce; action to annul a marriage based on legal age of consent; modify. Amends sec. 34 of 1846 RS 84 (MCL 552.34).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-07-18 - Assigned Pa 76'23 With Immediate Effect [HB4300 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2023-HB4300-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 76

Public Acts of 2023

Approved by the Governor

July 11, 2023

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 12, 2023

EFFECTIVE DATE:  July 12, 2023

state of michigan

102nd Legislature

Regular session of 2023

Introduced by Reps. Hill, Hope, Brixie, Young, Grant, Breen, Byrnes, Hoskins, Morgan, Skaggs, Paiz, Brabec and McKinney

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4300

AN ACT to amend 1846 RS 84, entitled “Of divorce,” by amending section 34 (MCL 552.34), as amended by 1983 PA 211.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 34. An action to annul a marriage on the ground that 1 of the parties was under the age of legal consent, as provided in section 3 of 1887 PA 128, MCL 551.103, may be brought by the parent or guardian entitled to the custody of the minor or by the next friend of the minor, but the marriage shall not be annulled on the application of a party who was of the age of legal consent at the time of the marriage.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

 

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor