Bill Text: MI HB5779 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Family law; marriage and divorce; provision regarding name change upon divorce; revise to make gender neutral. Amends title & sec. 1 of 1905 PA 299 (MCL 552.391). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5766'12

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-08-15 - Printed Bill Filed 07/19/2012 [HB5779 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB5779-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5779

 

July 18, 2012, Introduced by Reps. Hovey-Wright, Cavanagh, Smiley, Brunner, McCann, Durhal, Heise, Haugh and Meadows and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     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:

 

TITLE

 

     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 In

 

a judgment of divorce, is granted, a court may, at the instance of

 

the woman request of a party, whether complainant plaintiff or

 

defendant, decree to restore to her her the party the party's birth

 

name, or the surname she the party legally bore prior to her before

 

the marriage, to the husband 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 Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5766(request no.

 

04697'11) of the 96th Legislature is enacted into law.