PRINTER'S NO. 1175
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1120
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY HOWARD, RABB, MADDEN, HILL-EVANS, BURGOS, PROBST,
SANCHEZ, CERRATO, FLICK, McNEILL, SHUSTERMAN AND OTTEN,
MAY 5, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MAY 5, 2023
AN ACT
Amending Titles 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) and 23
(Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in intestate succession, further providing for
forfeiture; in elective share of surviving spouse, further
providing for right of election and resident decedent; in
wills, further providing for modification by circumstances;
in estates, further providing for modification by divorce or
pending divorce and for effect of divorce or pending divorce
on designation of beneficiaries; in preliminary provisions,
further providing for legislative findings and intent, for
definitions and for premarital agreements; in dissolution of
marital status, further providing for grounds for divorce,
repealing provisions relating to counseling, further
providing for grounds for annulment of voidable marriages,
repealing provisions relating to defenses, to action where
defendant suffering from mental disorder and to general
appearance and collusion, providing for general order of
divorce proceedings, repealing provisions relating to jury
trial, further providing for decree of court and repealing
provisions relating to limitations on attacks upon decrees
and to opening or vacating decrees; in alimony and support,
further providing for bar to alimony; and, in mediation,
further providing for mediation programs.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 2106(a)(2), 2203(c), 2507(2), 6111.1 and
6111.2(a) of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
are amended to read:
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