Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1960

Relating to family law, reforming and recodifying the law relating to marriage
dissolution, child custody and support, spousal maintenance and property
division ARTICLE 1 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION, LEGAL SEPARATION AND ANNULMENTRequiring
decrees of dissolution or legal separation or orders establishing child custody,
parenting time or support rights and obligations of parents to contain a review
date of a certain period of time after entry, specifying certain review
requirements; requiring court orders or judgments and decrees providing for
child support, spousal maintenance, custody or parenting time to include certain
notices; making certain technical corrections and clarifying certain provisions;
clarifying or modifying certain definitions; removing certain provisions
relating to modification of child support orders; providing for enforcement of
maintenance payment requirements; specifying certain renumbering and cross
reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes for recodification
purposes; repealing certain provisions relating to the continuation of child
support after death of the obligor, automatic termination of support upon
emancipation and a certain child support modification form requirement ARTICLE 2
CUSTODY, PARENTING TIME AND VISITATION Providing for temporary orders for
custody and parenting time; specifying certain custody or parenting time notice
requirements; providing for the awarding of attorney fees, costs and
disbursements; providing for child custody orders, requiring court consideration
of best interests of the child in determining custody, prohibiting parent
preference, specifying certain factors to be considered in determining best
interests; providing for joint custody, specifying certain factors and
presumptions; specifying the access rights of parents; clarifying certain
provisions regulating marriage dissolution; specifying certain renumbering and
cross reference correction instructions to the revisor of statutes for
recodification purposes; repealing certain recodified provisions ARTICLE 3 CHILD
SUPPORT"Minnesota Child Support Act"; defining certain terms; authorizing the
supreme court to promulgate rules to be used in child support cases; specifying
certain requirements and preferences for child support orders, authorizing
departure from certain presumptions; providing for temporary child support
orders; providing for determination of the controlling order in cases of the
existence of more than one order; providing for court award of attorney fees,
costs and disbursements; providing for the exchange of certain information
between the parties, specifying certain documentation requirements; providing
for the protection of certain personal information; defining income for child
support determination purposes, specifying certain exclusions; providing for the
determination of imputed income under certain conditions; providing for
presumptive child support orders, providing a worksheet form; providing for the
determination of medical support, requiring ex-spousal medical coverage under
certain conditions, imposing certain responsibilities on employers and obligors;
specifying certain factors to be considered by the court in determining whether
or not to deviate from the presumptive guidelines; requiring written findings;
requiring department of human services periodic guidelines review; specifying
certain requirements for court modification of child support orders; authorizing
the court to rescind and issue new child support orders under certain
conditions; providing for changes in custody or parenting time and for
termination of child support under certain conditions; requiring and providing
for cost of living adjustments to child support orders; providing for the
assignment of child support payments to public authorities responsible for
collection in public assistance cases, authorizing and providing for public
authority child support collections in other cases, granting public authorities
certain administrative authority relating to the establishment of paternity and
to the establishment, modification or enforcement of child support orders,
providing for the sharing of certain information; requiring the commissioner of
human services to create and maintain a central collections unit to receive,
process and disburse child support payments and to maintain payment records,
providing for mandatory payments to the unit; regulating the withholding of
income for child support orders compliance or arrearages payment purposes,
providing for certain lump sum payments, authorizing contempt actions against
employers for failure to comply with withholding requirements; providing for the
establishment of child support deposit or escrow accounts in financial
institutions; providing for the appointment of trustees under certain
conditions; providing for the treatment of overpayments; requiring and providing
for the independence of child support and parenting time; providing for
arrearage payment agreements; providing for certain obligor employment or
community service orders under certain conditions; providing for contempt
proceedings and drivers, occupational or recreational license suspension and
motor vehicle liens for nonpayment of support; providing for the publication of
names of delinquent child support obligors; specifying certain case reviewer
availability requirements; providing for child support obligee entitlement to
recovery of reasonable attorney fees and other collection costs incurred to
enforce child support judgments; providing for the form of certain required
notices; specifying certain cross reference correction instructions to the
revisor of statutes; repealing certain existing provisions providing for child
and medical support (ra)