Requiring the commissioner of human services (DHS) to develop and implement a Minnesota divorce reconciliation project develop to evaluate and disseminate best practices for promoting successful reconciliation between married persons, permitting administration with federal grants, state appropriations and in-kind services, requiring University of Minnesota implementation, permitting dedication of a portion of the marriage license application fee to the project; requiring marriage dissolution petitions or counterpetitions for marriage dissolutions involving minor children to be accompanied by an affidavit verifying on-line marriage dissolution education program (Children in the Middle) completion, specifying costs to be paid by persons completing program, exceptions
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