Posted on 05/13/2006 6:35:31 AM PDT by radar101
Legislation to restrict public access to financial records in California divorce cases was placed on the Assembly's inactive file Thursday. State Sen. Kevin Murray, a Culver City Democrat who crafted the measure, Senate Bill 1015, shelved the bill after Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez proposed major amendments in response to concerns by various female lawmakers and women's advocacy groups.
The bill, as written by Murray, would not limit spouses' access to sensitive financial information but would allow automatic redaction from public files of net worth, annual salary, Social Security numbers, home addresses, and balances of bank or broker accounts upon request by husband or wife.
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Response: A coalition of Sudra's elevated to positions of authority. In our pre 1954-1960 society they were jokes. Today, they are fatal.
Where is the bill to ban divorce? That is what the bill should be. Divorce is way to easy to get now a days. I think their should be a ten year waiting list on it...just kidding, but in all seriousness it is a bit much. We are trying so hard to save on our family values by trying desperately to ban gay marriage and then we have people out there getting divorced after hours. Craziness.
Not Ron Burkle.
I don't know what the bill actually says, but I think it's aboslutely right that the private family information remain private. Because people get a divorce, suddenly everything that was once private gets to be public record? Nonsense. If the husband and wife both have equal access, that is fair enough. But the public does not have a right to know what was once private information like SS #'s, income tax returns, bank account information, etc simply because a couple got a divorce.
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