NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1065

SENATE BILL 586

 

 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE DIVORCES BASED ON A COMPLAINT WHICH COMPLIED WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATUTE CONTAINING A TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  All divorces granted between January 1, 1969 and the date of the ratification of this act are hereby validated as to the complaint being certified by the attorney rather than verified by the plaintiff.

Sec. 2.  It is the intent of the General Assembly to validate divorces which were based on complaints relying on G.S. 50-8 which, due to a typographical error, indicated that complaints for divorce should be certified rather than verified.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.