813.34.Time of taking effect and not retroactive.

Section 813.34 fixes the boundary for Wisconsin’s absentee property provisions. Sections 813.22 to 813.34 are not retroactive, and they took effect on July 1, 1942. That means the act reaches absences and the property questions they raise going forward from that date, rather than reopening situations already settled under prior law before the act existed.

The effective-date rule is now mostly of historical interest, since any absence the act might have needed to reach at its outset is long past. But it remains the fixed starting point for the act as a whole, and it explains why courts applying sections 813.22 through 813.33 do not look to how absences or property questions arising before mid-1942 were once handled.