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PEN - Penal
Part 3 - Specific Offenses
Title O - Offenses Against Marriage, the Family, and the Welfare of Children and Incompetents
Article 255 - Offenses Affecting the Marital Relationship
255.05 - Unlawfully Issuing a Dissolution Decree.
Universal Citation: NY Penal L § 255.05 (2022)
§ 255.05 Unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree.A person is guilty of unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree when, not being a judicial officer authorized to issue decrees of divorce or annulment, he issues a written instrument reciting or certifying that he or some other purportedly but not actually authorized person has issued a valid decree of civil divorce, annulment or other dissolution of a marriage.
Unlawfully issuing a dissolution decree is a class A misdemeanor.
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