NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 128

HOUSE BILL 98

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE REVOCATION OF A WILL BY THE SUBSEQUENT MARRIAGE OF THE MAKER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 31-5.3 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"A will is not revoked by a subsequent marriage of the maker; and the surviving spouse may dissent from such will made prior to the marriage in the same manner, upon the same conditions, and to the same extent, as a surviving spouse may dissent from a will made subsequent to marriage."

Sec. 2.  This Act shall apply only to wills of persons dying on or after October 1, 1967.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective on October 1, 1967.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of March, 1967.