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SF 644 Senate Long Description

2E 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 adoption consents and placement resources for children in the legal custody of social services agencies; 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; requiring social services agencies to conduct background checks on persons being considered as child custodians, prescribing procedures and specifying certain notice requirements; specifying certain assessment requirements of responsible social services agencies, restricting agency use of results of background studies of noncustodial parents for day to day child care capability determination purposes; 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; prohibiting the consideration of certain criminal offenders for custody of nonbiological or nonadopted children, authorizing custody order modification upon violation of denied requests; requiring certain information in summary real estate disposition judgments; 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; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to implement the child protection requirements
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