DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Missouri House of Representatives
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DOMESTIC RELATIONS
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: Allows spousal maintenance to be terminated based on cohabitation.

: Corrects a technical title defect for a marriage statute declared unconstitutional.

: Allows adopted adults to have access to their original birth certificates without a court order.

: Changes court costs for providing funding for domestic violence shelters.

: Requires all courts to order parties to a dissolution to attend educational sessions, except for good cause.

: Makes certain police pensions subject to attachment for purposes of child support.

: Repeals the statute of limitations for child support orders.

: Changes date by which ordinance must be enacted to establish court costs to fund domestic violence shelters.

: Revises the statutory provisions regarding relocation of a child following dissolution of marriage.

: Changes the waiting period for issuance of a marriage license.

: Requires the Board of Probation and Parole to provide probation services on all criminal nonsupport cases.

: Revises various child protection laws.

: Makes various changes relating to domestic violence.

: Amends various statutes relating to marriage by adding gender neutral language.

: Prohibits the court from awarding child visitation to a parent who has not had any meaningful contact with the child in the last thirty-six months.

: Corrects a technical title defect in a statute that only recognizes a marriage between a man and a woman.

: Corrects a technical title defect for a marriage statute declared unconstitutional.

: Revises child relocation statute to repeal 1998 revisions of the statute.

: Allows for the emancipation of minors in certain circumstances.

: Allows adult siblings to register with the Division of Family Services' adoption registry and allows biological parents to consent to disclosure of identifying information at the time of registry.

: Expands family access motions by allowing all persons granted child visitation to file such a motion.

: Revises foster care reimbursement rate and child abuse reporting, authorizes counties to establish children's services councils, and establishes Court-appointed Special Advocates Fund.

: Enacts the "Parenting Alternatives Law" and provides for the transfer of temporary custody to the prospective adoptive parents within forty-eight hours of the birth of the child.

: Makes various changes to laws regarding domestic violence.

: Creates a tax credit for donations made to sexual violence crisis service centers.

: Adds the cohabitation or intended cohabitation of a parent as a relevant factor for the court to consider when determining child custody.

: Revises various child protection laws.

: Creates Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.

: Relating to visitation rights.

: State policy is to recognize marriage only between male and female.

: Modifies domestic violence law.

: Extends domestic violence and criminal reporting laws.

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