HB4159 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4159

Introduced 1/22/2020, by Rep. Joyce Mason

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

750 ILCS 5/403.5 new

Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Provides that a court shall not recognize and enforce an order entered by a foreign court for dissolution of marriage on the basis of comity if a party named in the foreign dissolution of marriage did not receive appropriate notice of the proceedings in the foreign country. Provides that if appropriate notice of a foreign dissolution of marriage was not received by a named party, the party may file a petition for dissolution of marriage regardless of any judgment entered by the foreign country. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act is amended by adding Section 403.5 as follows:

(750 ILCS 5/403.5 new)

Sec. 403.5. Comity for dissolution of marriage. A court shall not recognize and enforce an order entered by a foreign court for dissolution of marriage on the basis of comity if a party named in the foreign dissolution of marriage did not receive appropriate notice, under the laws of this State, of the proceedings in the foreign country. If appropriate notice of a foreign dissolution of marriage was not received by a named party, the party may file a petition under this Act for dissolution of marriage regardless of any judgment entered by the foreign country.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.