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SF 630 Senate Long Description

4E Relating to family law; reforming the law relating to child support; setting the fee for filing motions or responses to motions for modification of child support and modifying the disposition of the fee; imposing an initial filing fee for marriage dissolution, legal separation or annulment or child support obligations establishment proceedings; providing for preparation of a six month review hearing request form to be attached to decrees of dissolution or legal separation or orders establishing child custody, parenting time or support rights and obligations, specifying certain form content requirements and providing for conduct of the hearings; defining or redefining certain terms for child support and maintenance purposes; creating a presumption in court determination of controlling order in multiple order cases for the latest order subject to contrary proof; eliminating the current child support guidelines and modifying the procedure for determination of income, specifying certain requirements for the provision of income information; providing for the management of child support debts and arrearages; modifying a certain provision providing for modification of child support orders, expanding the substantial change in circumstances presumption and prohibiting use of the presumption as the sole basis for modification due to the assumption of responsibility for support of additional nonjoint children born after the existing child support order, temporarily restricting modifications during the first year; expanding and modifying certain notice requirements relating to the rules of support; providing for the calculation of gross income, of income from self employment or operation of a business and of individual child support obligations, providing for determination of parental income for child support (PICS); authorizing and providing for deviations from the child support guidelines under certain conditions; specifying certain written findings requirements of the court; requiring commissioner of human services periodic review of the child support guidelines; providing a credit for obligations for nonjoint children; providing for the consideration of social security or veterans benefits received on behalf of the child; providing for determination and collection of medical support and regulating medical support orders, imposing certain responsibilities on employers, unions and health carriers, authorizing challenges on limited grounds, regulating disenrollment, continuation of coverage and coverage options, requiring spousal or former spousal coverage under certain conditions and providing for enforcement; providing for the division of child care costs; providing for a parenting expense adjustment based on the amount of parenting time granted to the obligor under certain conditions; creating rebuttable presumptions relating to the percentage of parenting time for joint children and of ability to pay, specifying a minimum basic support amount; providing new child support determination guidelines, providing an income cap on the determination of basic support; requiring the commissioner to create and publish a worksheet to assist in calculating child support, requiring annual adjustments; requiring the commissioner to contract with a private provider to conduct an economic analysis of fairness of the child support guidelines, imposing a deadline for completion; specifying certain new statutory chapter creation instructions to the revisor of statutes; appropriating money to the commissioner and to the supreme court for implementation costs; repealing certain existing provisions providing for the determination of child and medical support (mk, ja)