STATE OF NEW YORK
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4622
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to permitting
combination last name changes to occur when separated by a space
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause (iv) of subparagraph 3 of paragraph (b) of subdivi-
2 sion 1 of section 15 of the domestic relations law, as added by chapter
3 583 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
4 (iv) a combination name separated by a hyphen or space, provided that
5 each part of such combination surname is the premarriage surname, or any
6 former surname, of each of the spouses.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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