2022 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Act 106 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS (23 PA.C.S.) - DECREE OF COURT

Session of 2022

No. 2022-106

HB 875

AN ACT

Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in dissolution of marital status, further providing for decree of court.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 3323(b) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by adding a subsection to read:

§ 3323.  Decree of court.

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(b)  Contents of decree.--A decree granting a divorce or an annulment shall include, after a full hearing, where these matters are raised in any pleadings, an order determining and disposing of existing property rights and interests between the parties, custody, partial custody and visitation rights, child support, alimony, reasonable attorney fees, costs and expenses and any other related matters, including the enforcement of agreements voluntarily entered into between the parties and accompanied by the information required under subsection (b.1). In the enforcement of the rights of any party to any of these matters, the court shall have all necessary powers, including, but not limited to, the power of contempt and the power to attach wages.

(b.1)  Existing beneficiary designations.--An order accompanying a decree of divorce or annulment of the marriage shall include a provision informing the parties to reaffirm or change the beneficiary status on an existing life insurance policy, annuity contract, pension, profit-sharing plan or other contractual arrangement providing for payment to the spouse if it is the intention of one of the parties to keep or change the other party as a beneficiary. The provision shall also warn the parties that failure to do so may result in revocation of the beneficiary designation pursuant to 20 Pa.C.S. § 6111.2 (relating to effect of divorce or pending divorce on designation of beneficiaries). The provision shall be a form as may be prescribed by general rule.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 180 days.

APPROVED--The 3rd day of November, A.D. 2022.

TOM WOLF