Relates to requiring all parties to an annulment or divorce to remove religious barriers to remarriage within ninety days of filing for such annulment or divorce or be subject to a fine of twenty-five hundred dollars per week.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to requiring all
parties to an annulment or divorce to remove religious barriers to
remarriage
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 253 of the domestic relations law
2 is renumbered subdivision 10 and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as
3 follows:
4 9. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions two, three, four and
5 five of this section, in any action or proceeding to annul a marriage or
6 to file for a divorce, both parties shall remove any religious or
7 conscientious barrier to remarriage as described in subdivision six of
8 this section within ninety days of filing for such annulment or divorce.
9 A person who fails to comply with the requirements of this subdivision
10 shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five hundred dollars per week until
11 such barriers to remarriage are removed, unless the other party has
12 waived in writing the requirements of this subdivision.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
14 it shall have become a law and shall apply to actions and proceedings
15 commenced on or after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00620-01-1
