| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the waiting period for issuing a decree in a suit for |
|
|
dissolution of a marriage. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 6.702, Family Code, is amended by adding |
|
|
Subsection (c) to read as follows: |
|
|
(c) If a suit for dissolution of a marriage is filed against |
|
|
a party who is on active duty with the armed forces of the United |
|
|
States and is deployed or serving an unaccompanied tour of duty, the |
|
|
waiting period under Subsection (a) does not begin to run until the |
|
|
date the deployment or unaccompanied tour of duty ends. |
|
|
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a |
|
|
suit for dissolution of marriage pending in a trial court on or |
|
|
filed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
|
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007. |