GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 587
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section l. G.S. 31-5.4 reads as rewritten:
"§ 31-5.4. Revocation by divorce or annulment; revival.
Dissolution of marriage by absolute divorce or annulment after
making a will does not revoke the will of any testator but, unless otherwise
specifically provided in the will, it revokes all provisions in the will in
favor of the testator's former spouse or purported former spouseso
divorced, including, but not by way of limitation, the appointment of
such spouse as executor or executrix any provision conferring a general
or special power of appointment on the former spouse or purported former spouse
and any appointment of the former spouse or purported former spouse as
executor, trustee, conservator, or guardian. If provisions are revoked
solely by this section, they are revived by the testator's remarriage to the
former spouse or purported former spouse."
Sec. 2. G.S. 31-5.8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 31-5.8. Revival of revoked will.
No will or any part thereof, which that shall
be has been in any manner revoked can, except as provided
in G.S. 31-5.4, can be revived otherwise than by a reexecution
thereof, or by the execution of another will in which the revoked will or part
thereof is incorporated by reference."
Sec. 3. This act is effective October 1, 1991 and applies to the will of any person dying on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of July, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives