SF 3199 Senate Long Description
3E Relating to family law; requiring notice by custodial parents to noncustodial parents, the county social services agency and the court granting custody of residence of the custodial parent with persons convicted of certain crimes; modifying certain presumptions relating to the establishment of paternity, determination to not preclude adjudication of another man as legal father, exclusion of legal or biological parental claim for genetic material donors for assisted reproduction; 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; modifying certain requirements for adoption consents and placement resources for children in the legal custody of social services agencies; providing for appeal of fourth judicial district family court referee orders and decrees; providing a rebuttable presumption of parent entitlement to a certain percentage of the parenting time for the child; modifying the procedure for custodial parents moving 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; modifying certain parenting plan custody designation requirements; requiring payments ordered by the court for maintenance or support be made to the public agency responsible for the child support enforcement under certain conditions; modifying certain failure of notice requirements; requiring cases involving establishment or modification of child support orders to include gross income; applying the provision subjecting pension plan benefits or rights to marital property division specifically to defined benefit plans; establishing methods for determining personal income; defining criteria to determine whether a parent is considered voluntarily employed or underemployed; establishing criteria for determining whether a parent who stays home with a child is voluntarily unemployed or underemployed; providing for the opportunity for self employed parents to illustrate the relationship between reduced income and economic conditions in determining employment status; modifying a certain provision relating to the six month review hearing; modifying certain definitions; requiring the commissioner of human services to prepare a financial affidavit form to be used by the parties for disclosing information; adjusting certain provisions relating to modifications in orders and decrees, calculation of gross income, income from self employment order operation of a business, computation of child support obligations, written findings, deduction from income for nonjoint children, social security or veterans benefit payments received on behalf of child, certain deviations from child support guidelines; providing for the dividing of work or education related child care costs between obligor and obligee; providing for the adjustment of fees for eligible low income obligors, enforcement of unreimbursed or uninsured medical expenses as arrears, parenting expense adjustments, and ability to pay and self support adjustments; reinstating certain repealed definitions
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