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SF 1960 Senate Long Description

Relating to family law, reforming and recodifying the law relating to marriage dissolution, child custody and support, spousal maintenance and property division ARTICLE 1 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION, LEGAL SEPARATION AND ANNULMENTRequiring decrees of dissolution or legal separation or orders establishing child custody, parenting time or support rights and obligations of parents to contain a review date of a certain period of time after entry, specifying certain review requirements; requiring court orders or judgments and decrees providing for child support, spousal maintenance, custody or parenting time to include certain notices; making certain technical corrections and clarifying certain provisions; clarifying or modifying certain definitions; removing certain provisions relating to modification of child support orders; providing for enforcement of maintenance payment requirements; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes for recodification purposes; repealing certain provisions relating to the continuation of child support after death of the obligor, automatic termination of support upon emancipation and a certain child support modification form requirement ARTICLE 2 CUSTODY, PARENTING TIME AND VISITATION Providing for temporary orders for custody and parenting time; specifying certain custody or parenting time notice requirements; providing for the awarding of attorney fees, costs and disbursements; providing for child custody orders, requiring court consideration of best interests of the child in determining custody, prohibiting parent preference, specifying certain factors to be considered in determining best interests; providing for joint custody, specifying certain factors and presumptions; specifying the access rights of parents; clarifying certain provisions regulating marriage dissolution; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes for recodification purposes; repealing certain recodified provisions ARTICLE 3 CHILD SUPPORT"Minnesota Child Support Act"; defining certain terms; authorizing the supreme court to promulgate rules to be used in child support cases; specifying certain requirements and preferences for child support orders, authorizing departure from certain presumptions; providing for temporary child support orders; providing for determination of the controlling order in cases of the existence of more than one order; providing for court award of attorney fees, costs and disbursements; providing for the exchange of certain information between the parties, specifying certain documentation requirements; providing for the protection of certain personal information; defining income for child support determination purposes, specifying certain exclusions; providing for the determination of imputed income under certain conditions; providing for presumptive child support orders, providing a worksheet form; providing for the determination of medical support, requiring ex-spousal medical coverage under certain conditions, imposing certain responsibilities on employers and obligors; specifying certain factors to be considered by the court in determining whether or not to deviate from the presumptive guidelines; requiring written findings; requiring department of human services periodic guidelines review; specifying certain requirements for court modification of child support orders; authorizing the court to rescind and issue new child support orders under certain conditions; providing for changes in custody or parenting time and for termination of child support under certain conditions; requiring and providing for cost of living adjustments to child support orders; providing for the assignment of child support payments to public authorities responsible for collection in public assistance cases, authorizing and providing for public authority child support collections in other cases, granting public authorities certain administrative authority relating to the establishment of paternity and to the establishment, modification or enforcement of child support orders, providing for the sharing of certain information; requiring the commissioner of human services to create and maintain a central collections unit to receive, process and disburse child support payments and to maintain payment records, providing for mandatory payments to the unit; regulating the withholding of income for child support orders compliance or arrearages payment purposes, providing for certain lump sum payments, authorizing contempt actions against employers for failure to comply with withholding requirements; providing for the establishment of child support deposit or escrow accounts in financial institutions; providing for the appointment of trustees under certain conditions; providing for the treatment of overpayments; requiring and providing for the independence of child support and parenting time; providing for arrearage payment agreements; providing for certain obligor employment or community service orders under certain conditions; providing for contempt proceedings and drivers, occupational or recreational license suspension and motor vehicle liens for nonpayment of support; providing for the publication of names of delinquent child support obligors; specifying certain case reviewer availability requirements; providing for child support obligee entitlement to recovery of reasonable attorney fees and other collection costs incurred to enforce child support judgments; providing for the form of certain required notices; specifying certain cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain existing provisions providing for child and medical support (ra)