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                                                       PRINTER'S NO. 356

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 315 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY LEACH, RUBLEY, BOYD, EVERETT, FREEMAN, GEORGE,
           GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HESS, JOSEPHS, McGEEHAN, MELIO, MUNDY,
           PARKER, ROSS, SAYLOR, WALKO AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 7, 2007

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 7, 2007

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, providing for duration of child
     3     support payments.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Title 23 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     7  Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
     8  § 4328.  Duration of child support payments.
     9     (a)  General rule.--Unless expressly provided in an order of
    10  support, provisions in the order for the support of a child
    11  shall terminate by emancipation or attainment of majority of the
    12  child but not by the death of a parent obligated to support the
    13  child.
    14     (b)  Death of obligee parent.--When a parent obligated to pay
    15  support dies, the amount of support may be modified, revoked or
    16  commuted to a lump sum payment, to the extent just and
    17  appropriate in the circumstances.
    18     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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