Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0630

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)