Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: HF0778

hf778SECOND ENGROSSMENTOmnibus family law bill reforming and recodifying
marriage +dissolution, child custody, child support, and property division
provisions, providing enforcement, providing for alternate marriage
solemnization, and +appropriating money.ARTICLE 1�MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION, LEGAL
SEPARATION, AND ANNULMENTSection 1: Marital dissolution fee imposed.Sec. 2:
Six-month review procedures established.Sec. 3: Maintenance payment enforcement
requirements established.Sec. 4: Meaning of divorce clarified.Sec. 5: Scope
modified.Sec. 6: Statutory references added.Sec. 7: Void marriage language
provided.Sec. 8: Voidable marriages specified.Sec. 9: Language updated.Sec.
10: Insufficient grounds for annulment clarified. Sec. 11: Language pertaining
to annulment clarified.Sec. 12-20: "Shall" replaced with "must"; "not less
than" replaced +with "at least"; other similar language updates provided.Sec.
21: Temporary orders and restraining order regulations +clarified.Sec. 22-27:
Technical language updates.Sec. 28: Remarriage revocation procedures
modified.Sec. 29-31: Technical language modifications and statutory +references
provided.Sec. 32: "Income" definition modified.Sec. 33: "Obligee" definition
modified.Sec. 34: "Obligor" definition modified.Sec. 35-40: Technical language
updates.Sec. 41: Temporary or permanent maintenance order regulations
+modified.Sec. 42: Revision of maintenance modification regulations
provided.Sec. 43-46: Cost of living adjustment regulations modified and
+language updated.Sec. 47: Court order requirements providing for support,
+maintenance, or custody regulations modified.Sec. 48: Revisor's
instruction.Sec. 49: Repealer.ARTICLE 2�CUSTODY, PARENTING TIME, AND
VISITATION: GENERALSection 1: Scope provided.Sec. 2: Temporary orders relating
to custody and parenting time +regulated.Sec. 3: Custody, parenting time, and
visitation notice regulations +provided.Sec. 4: Attorney fees, costs, and
disbursements required.Sec. 5: Custody of children regulations modified.Sec. 6:
Joint custody regulations established.Sec. 7: Access rights of parents and
limitations detailed.Sec. 8: "Custodial parent" definition modified.Sec. 9:
Parenting time jurisdiction regulations modified.Sec. 10-17: Obsolete language
updated.Sec. 18: Availability to counsel regulations modified.Sec. 19:
Discovery hearing regulations established.Sec. 20-27: Obsolete language
updated.Sec. 28: Parenting time expeditor duties provided.Sec. 29-38: Obsolete
language updated and clarified; statutory +references added.Sec. 39: Order
modification regulations revised.Sec. 40: Independence of provisions of decree
or temporary order +modified.Sec. 41-42: Obsolete language updated.Sec. 43:
Revisor's instruction.Sec. 44: Repealer.ARTICLE 3�CHILD SUPPORTSection 1:
Title provided as "Minnesota Child Support Act."Sec. 2: Related terms
defined.Sec. 3: Child support order regulations established.Sec. 4: Temporary
order regulations established.Sec. 5: Determination of controlling order
procedure provided.Sec. 6: Attorney fees, costs, and disbursements provisions
+established.Sec. 7: Exchange of information procedures established.Sec. 8:
Privacy and personal protection provided.Sec. 9: Income regulations
established.Sec. 10: Imputed income regulations established.Sec. 11:
Presumptive child support order regulations established.Sec. 12: Basic support
schedule provided.Sec. 13: Child care support regulations established.Sec. 14:
Medical support regulations established.Sec. 15: Self-support adjustment
allowance defined.Sec. 16: Worksheet for calculating child support production
required.Sec. 17: Deviation determination procedures clarified.Sec. 18: Written
findings clarified.Sec. 19: Guidelines review required.Sec. 20: Education
trust fund allowed.Sec. 21: General authority modification provided.Sec. 22:
Reopening an order procedure provided.Sec. 23: Change in custody or parenting
time situation addressed.Sec. 24: Substantial change in circumstances,
earnings, or needs +procedure provided.Sec. 25: Modification effective date
determination procedure +established.Sec. 26: Termination of child support
conditions detailed.Sec. 27: Cost-of-living adjustments provided.Sec. 28:
Payments ordered for support directed to public authority +in case of public
assistance reception by obligee.Sec. 29: Party status provided.Sec. 30: Role
of public authority provided.Sec. 31: Service fees imposed.Sec. 32: Public
authority procedures for child support and parentage+ orders provided.Sec. 33:
Nonattorney employee duties provided.Sec. 34: Pleadings and case information
sheet format established.Sec. 35: Noncontested matters procedure
established.Sec. 36: Administrative authority, parentage, and support
+regulations provided.Sec. 37: Information and data sharing procedures
established.Sec. 38: Sufficiency of notice clarified.Sec. 39: Child support
payment center central collections unit +created.Sec. 40: Mandatory payment of
obligations to central collections +unit required.Sec. 41: Income withholding
procedures provided.Sec. 42: Waiver of income withholding procedures provided,
+conditions established.Sec. 43: Payor of funds responsibilities provided.Sec.
44: Lump-sum payment procedure established.Sec. 45: Payor of funds liability
clarified.Sec. 46: Employer contempt notices or orders for income withholding
+clarified.Sec. 47: Priority of income withholding orders clarified and maximum
withholding provided.Sec. 48: Subsequent income withholding procedures
defined.Sec. 49: Arrears order for income withholding provided.Sec. 50:
Interstate income withholding clarified.Sec. 51: Order terminating income
withholding provided.Sec. 52: Child support deposit account with financial
institutions +procedures established.Sec. 53: Escrow account regulations
detailed.Sec. 54: Trustee appointment authorized.Sec. 55: Overpayment
procedures clarified.Sec. 56: Alternate notice of court order required.Sec. 57:
Child support and parenting time designated as independent.Sec. 58: Six-month
review provided.Sec. 59: Payment agreement requirements and considerations
provided.Sec. 60: Seek employment order procedures provided.Sec. 61: Order for
community services procedures provided.Sec. 62: Contempt proceedings for
nonpayment of support detailed.Sec. 63: Security, sequestration, and contempt
provisions detailed.Sec. 64: Driver's license suspension instances
provided.Sec. 65: Occupational license suspension provided.Sec. 66: Support
arrears suspensions data procedures provided.Sec. 67: Recreational license
suspension situation detailed.Sec. 68: Motor vehicle lien procedures
provided.Sec. 69: Publication of names of delinquent child support obligors
+procedure established.Sec. 70: Arrears collection to continue after child is
emancipated.Sec. 71: Revenue recapture and collection provided.Sec. 72: Case
reviewer availability required.Sec. 73: Attorney fees and collection costs
responsibility clarified.Sec. 74: Required notices detailed.Sec. 75:
Appropriations provided.Sec. 76: Revisor's instruction.Sec. 77: Repealer.Sec.
78: Effective date.ARTICLE 4�CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENTSection 1: Certain
data classified as private.Sec. 2: License applications social security number
collection +classified as private data.Sec. 3: Application content requirements
modified.Sec. 4: Social security number usage prohibited.Sec. 5: Information
release regulated.Sec. 6: Net income calculation procedure modified.Sec. 7:
Occupational license suspension regulations clarified.Sec. 8: Driver's license
suspension regulations pertaining to +obligors failing to remain in compliance
modified.Sec. 9: Technical.Sec. 10: Notice format modified.Sec. 11: Child
support judgement by operation of law regulations +modified.Sec. 12: "Public
authority" definition modified.Sec. 13: "Judgement debtor" definition
modified.Sec. 14: "Claim" definition modified.Sec. 15: "Judgement" definition
modified.Sec. 16: Technical.Sec. 17: Summary execution commencement
regulations clarified.Sec. 18: Conforming changes.Sec. 19: Exemption and
contest regulations modified.Sec. 20: Format provided.Sec. 21: Contempt order
obtainment attempt regulations provided.Sec. 22: Visitation and access federal
funds regulations modified.ARTICLE 5�MISCELLANEOUSSection 1: Clarifying and
technical changes.Sec. 2: Marriage solemnization pertaining to various
religious +faiths clarified.Sec. 3: Language clarified.Sec. 4: Moving a child
to another state regulations established.Sec. 5: Order notification procedure
modified.Sec. 6: Clarifying change.Sec. 7: Military service regulations
pertaining to modification of +support requirements established.Sec. 8:
Effective date.AE