Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1717

Relating to marriage dissolution; modifying and expanding the definition of best
interests of the child for child custody determination purposes; requiring the
court to use the rebuttable presumption of joint legal and physical custody in
determining the best interests of the child, requiring the justification of
departure by detailed findings and authorizing court establishment of rules
governing disagreements between the parents; authorizing the court to use the
best interests rebuttable presumption of granting legal and physical custody to
the parent more disposed to encourage and permit frequent and continuing contact
with the child by the other parent under certain conditions, requiring
justification of departure; requiring petitioners to notify the public authority
responsible for child support collection of proceedings for dissolution, legal
separation, determination of parentage or custody in certain public assistance
receipt or application cases; specifying the basic support obligation of both
parents; providing new child support guidelines as a rebuttable presumption in
all child support cases, authorizing and providing for court deviation under
certain conditions; requiring equal division of child care and medical costs;
authorizing the court to order payment directly from the obligor to the obligee
without intervention of the department of human services in certain situations
and authorizing other than monthly payments; providing for special relief
including modification of child support under certain conditions; modifying the
definition of net income for public defender reimbursement determination
purposes; repealing certain existing custody and support provisions relating to
evidence of false allegations of child abuse, custody orders and support payment
guidelines; specifying certain reference deletion and insertion instructions to
the revisor of statutes
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