Chapter 768, ACTIONS ABOLISHED

768.01 Actions for breach of promise, alienation of affection and criminal conversation abolished. All causes of action for breach of contract to marry, alienation of affections and criminal conversation are hereby abolished, except that this section shall not apply to contracts …

768.02 Purpose. No act hereafter done within this state shall operate to give rise, either within or without this state, to any of the causes of action abolished by this chapter. No contract to marry, which shall hereafter be made in this state, shall operate to give rise, either…

768.03 Unlawful to file or threaten actions barred. It is unlawful for any person, either as a party or attorney, to commence, or threaten to commence, in any court in this state, any action, or to serve and file in such court or threaten to so do any process, pleading or paper, …

768.04 Time for filing actions. (1) All actions for breach of contract, now existing, to marry shall be commenced, and the process, pleading or paper setting forth the same filed, within 6 months of January 1, 1960 and, if not so commenced and filed, shall thereafter be barred. (…

768.05 Contracts executed as to such claims barred. (1) All contracts and instruments of every kind, which may here-

768.06 Actions for recovery of property procured by fraud; corroboration required. Actions for the recovery of property received by one party from the other after the alleged contract to marry and before the breach thereof, which was procured by such party by his or her fraud in …

768.07 Penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this chapter may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both. History: 1979 c. 32 s. 51; Stats. 1979 s. 768.07; 1997 a. 283; 2001 a. 109. History: 1971 c. 220; 1979 c. 32 s. 51; Stats. 19…

768.08 Construction. This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate the object thereof. History: 1979 c. 32 s. 51; Stats. 1979 s. 768.08.