2025 House Bill 4626

A bill to amend 1948 (1st Ex Sess) PA 39, entitled “An act to repeal Act No. 317 of the Public Acts of 1947, entitled “An act to provide for the creation of a community estate between husband and wife in real and personal property as defined herein; to prescribe the effect of such community estate; to define and prescribe certain rights and liabilities of parties affected hereby; to eliminate curtesy and dower in such community estate; to preserve the right of dower in the separate property of the husband, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith,”” by amending sections 3 and 4 (MCL 557.253 and 557.254).

Mackinac Center Analysis

This is part of a package of bills designed to make language in our state laws gender neutral such as in the establishment of inheritance rights, divorce settlements or workers compensation to name a few sections that will be amended.