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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 917

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Relating to: an optional final hearing by affidavit for the dissolution of a marriage (suggested as remedial legislation by the Office of the Director of State Courts).

Court — Procedure Divorce State courts director of Statutes — Revision

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

2025 Wisconsin Act 40

established a process whereby a court may enter a judgment of divorce or legal separation based on an affidavit signed by each party to the action (final hearing by affidavit). For a final hearing by affidavit to be granted, the parties to the divorce or legal separation action must submit a signed affidavit, which must meet a number of requirements, including stating whether the parties were involved in any pending or completed court cases in any jurisdiction where interspousal battery or domestic abuse are indicated.

This bill inserts the correct cross-reference to domestic abuse in the Act 40 provision and updates cross-references to battery to reconcile the provision with

2025 Wisconsin Act 24

, which revised and recodified the battery statutes.

For further information, see the

Notes

provided by the Law Revision Committee of the Joint Legislative Council.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Law Revision Committee

Full history

  1. Jan 27, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Law Revision Committee

  2. Jan 27, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Senate Organization

  3. Jan 27, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1