GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION

CHAPTER 143 
HOUSE BILL 435 

AN ACT TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL FACTOR IN DIVISION OF MARITAL PROPERTY. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 50-20(c) is amended by deleting the word "and" after subsection (11) and by inserting a new subsection following subsection (11) to read: 
"(11a)	Acts of either party to maintain, preserve, develop, or expand; or to waste, neglect, devalue or convert such marital property, during the period after separation of the parties and before the time of distribution; and". 
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1985. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of April, 1985.