Bill Text: MI HB5218 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Family law: marriage and divorce; certain references in provision for name change upon solemnization; make gender neutral. Amends title & sec. 1 of 1905 PA 299 (MCL 552.391). TIE BAR WITH: HJR J'21
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-14 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 07/01/2021 [HB5218 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB5218-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5218
A bill to amend 1905 PA 299, entitled
"An act to provide for changing and determining the names of divorced women,"
by amending the title and section 1 (MCL 552.391).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
An act to provide for changing and determining the names of divorced women.individuals.
Sec. 1. The circuit courts of this state, whenever a decree when a judgment of divorce is granted, may, at the instance request of the woman, a party to the action, whether complainant plaintiff or defendant, decree to restore to her her the party's birth name, or the surname she the party legally bore prior to her before the marriage to the husband spouse in the divorce action, or allow her the party to adopt another surname if the change is not sought with any fraudulent or evil intent.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Joint Resolution ____ or House Joint Resolution ____ (request no. 02344'21) of the 101st Legislature becomes a part of the state constitution of 1963 as provided in section 1 of article XII of the state constitution of 1963.
