Session Year 2005, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0010

Relating to family law and child protection; requiring notice to noncustodial
parents, corrections agents, county social services agencies and the court of
residence of custodial parent with persons convicted of certain crimes or of
parenting time spent in a residence with an offender, requiring corrections
agent notice to parents or legal guardians or custodians of residence of a child
with a predatory offender; modifying certain presumptions relating to the
establishment of paternity; modifying certain requirements for communication or
contact agreements between adoptive parents and birth relatives other than birth
parents for children under state guardianship, requiring inclusion of the
agreement in the final adoption decree, exception, requiring court determination
of the terms of the agreement under certain conditions; authorizing the direct
appeal to the court of appeals of fourth judicial district family court referee
orders and decrees; specifying certain mediation participation requirements of
parties to marriage dissolution proceedings; modifying certain parenting plan
custody designation requirements; modifying the procedure for custodial parents
moving of children to another state in marriage dissolution cases, requiring the
court to apply a best interests standard in considering residence move requests
and specifying certain factors to be considered in best interests determination,
burden of proof to be on the requesting parent, exception in cases of domestic
abuse, authorizing custody order modification upon violation of denied requests;
prohibiting the consideration of certain criminal offenders for custody of
nonbiological or nonadopted children; expanding the information content
requirement for summary real estate disposition judgments and clarifying the
operation of the judgments as a conveyance and transfer of interests in real
estate; expanding the definition of support order to orders for spousal
maintenance, spousal maintenance not to be considered in IV-D case; authorizing
and providing for the department of human services to collect spousal
maintenance under income withholding only services; applying the provision
subjecting pension plan benefits or rights to marital property division
specifically to defined benefit plans; modifying the provision requiring social
services agency background checks on persons under consideration as child
custodians relating to the minimum age requirement; eliminating the repeal of
the scope of the provision requiring maintenance and support payments to be made
to the public agency responsible for child support enforcement
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