FAMILY LAW

Missouri House of Representatives
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FAMILY LAW
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: Creates a good cause exception for removal of a guardian upon dissolution of marriage.

: Requires the Division of Child Support Enforcement to maintain a toll free information line.

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

: The Division of Family Services may request an extension of foster care beyond a child's eighteenth birthday for good cause.

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

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

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

: Requires both parties to a marriage license to disclose to the recorder of deeds any previous marriages and the state and county in which they occurred.

: Clarifies that the provisions of section 461.051 only apply to beneficiary designations made after the 1989 initial effective date of the section.

: Includes interference with visitation in the crime of interference with custody.

: Revises various child protection laws.

: Allows courts to issue restraining orders against certain persons less than eighteen years of age.

: 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.

: Requires custodial orders to permit all parents access to the child's health insurance provider.

: 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.

: Amends various statutes regarding the release and destruction of child abuse information obtained by the Division of Family Services.

: Modifies the restrictions for placing a child for adoption.

: Amends laws on intestate succession and wills.

: Provides scholarships to certain former foster children who are adopted or have a legal guardian appointed after age thirteen.

: Expedites termination of parental rights and adoption cases.

: 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.

: Waives the Division of Family Services' sovereign immunity for cases of child abuse under their supervision which result in death or serious injury.

: Establishes an incremental increase in the reimbursement rate for facilities that provide residential treatment services to children in the custody of DFS.

: Permits parents to leave their newborns at a medical facility without fear of prosecution for abandonment of such child.

: Makes various changes to laws regarding domestic violence.

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

: Creates Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.

: Makes several changes to court procedures.

: Relating to visitation rights.

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

: Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation Program.

: Holds that beneficiary designations made to a former spouse are revoked upon the date of the divorce shall only apply to designations made on or after August 28, 1989.

: Extends domestic violence and criminal reporting laws.

: Creates the Child Support Assurance Program.

: Revises child custody relocation notice provisions.

: Recorder shall not issue marriage license to person less than 17 to anyone 21 or older.

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