Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1271

3E Relating to family law; clarifying and modifying child support laws; allowing
public authorities to remove or resume medical support offsets and to suspend or
resume interest charging on child support judgments under certain conditions;
reassigning certain child support duties from the commissioner of human services
to the state court administrator and permitting certain affidavits for income
information; clarifying child support application; defining parent employed on a
less than full time basis; permitting change in availability of appropriate
health care coverage or substantial increase or decrease in health care coverage
costs for modification of child support orders and modifying certain
circumstances for order changes; modifying the division of the child care
support costs to include public agency payments; clarifying human services
department care payment suspension and resumption effective dates, allowing
continuation challenges; modifying the definitions of health care coverage and
health plan, clarifying dental care under health care coverage, allowing
extended family members to carry children on health care policies; clarifying
medical support order requirements and specifying unreimbursed or uninsured
medical expense allocation requirements; modifying factors for considering
medical support determination decisions; clarifying and modifying court orders
of dependent health care coverage, authorizing dental coverage court
determination; counting the medical support amount allocation as child support
not subject to cost of living adjustment; allowing spousal maintenance reduction
under certain conditions; making clarifying changes; allowing an offset for
spousal maintenance obligations; specifying public authority duties with regard
to offsets; requiring consideration of the residence of the child in a foreign
county upon deviation from the presumptive child support amount; authorizing
interest suspension under certain conditions; allowing child support judgments
to be renewed for an additional time period by service of notice upon the
debtor; specifying certain application of law requirements
(Ch. 118, 2007)