NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 39

SENATE BILL 141

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 50-8 SO AS TO VALIDATE A DIVORCE PROCEEDING WHICH IS INSTITUTED BY A NON-RESIDENT OF NORTH CAROLINA IN A COUNTY OTHER THAN THE COUNTY OF RESIDENCE OF THE RESIDENT DEFENDANT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 50-8, as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the first paragraph thereof:

"Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any suit or action for divorce heretofore instituted by a non-resident of this State in which the defendant was personally served with summons and the case was tried and final judgment entered in a court of this State in a county other than the county of the defendant's residence, is hereby validated and declared to be legal and proper, the same as if the suit or action for divorce had been brought in the county of the defendant's residence."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of March, 1973.