NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 104

HOUSE BILL 124

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 1-496 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT UNDERTAKING OR BOND SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED IN SUITS BETWEEN SPOUSES CONCERNING SUPPORT, ALIMONY, CUSTODY, AND DIVORCE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 1-496 is amended by adding a new sentence at the end thereof to read as follows:

"Provided, however, that in suits between spouses, relating to support alimony, custody of children, separation, divorce from bed and board, and divorce absolute no bond or undertaking shall be required of the plaintiff spouse as a condition precedent to the issuing of a restraining order enjoining the defendant spouse from interfering with, threatening, or in any way molesting the plaintiff spouse during pendency of the suit, until further order of the court."

Sec. 2  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of March, 1965.