FAMILY LAW

Missouri House of Representatives
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FAMILY LAW
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: Changes the waiting period for a marriage license.

: Expands the crime of tampering with a judicial officer to include offenses involving juvenile court officers.

: Requires that family court commissioners be placed on the ballot at every presidential election for purposes of a retention vote.

: Establishes the Missouri CASA Fund.

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

: Allows spousal maintenance to be terminated based on cohabitation.

: Revises the foster care reimbursement rate.

: Enacts the Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2001.

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

: Revises laws on elder abuse, Medicaid fraud, nursing homes, public assistance, child care, and regional assessment centers.

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

: Creates the Family and Community Trust.

: Allows foster parents to claim a dependency deduction on their state income tax returns.

: Expedites the process of adopting a foster child by waiving the six-month waiting period.

: Increases the foster care reimbursement rate to the rate established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

: Creates heirloom birth certificates and marriage licenses suitable for display.

: Modifies grandparent visitation provisions.

: Removes from the original jurisdiction of the juvenile/family courts cases involving violations of traffic laws by children over fifteen years of age or violations of tobacco laws by children.

: Allows circuit judges to use monies received from the court surcharge for family court services as well as the county or circuit law library.

: Removes from the banking statute the common law presumption that real and personal marital property is titled as tenancy by the entirety.

: Removes the Social Security number requirement on marriage licenses for applicants who do not have a Social Security number and establishes policy on recognition of marriages.

: Limits parental liability for the damages caused by the acts of seventeen year old children.

: Repeals the current child relocation statute and reenacts an earlier version of this section.

: 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 registering.

: Amends various provisions of the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Expands the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts to include paternity, permanent guardianship and dissolution of marriage actions.

: Expands exception to expiration of judgments in divorce to include pensions, life insurance, and other employee benefits.

: Expedites the adoption of foster children by waiving or shortening certain waiting periods.

: Creates the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.

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

: Allows a surviving spouse to obtain an autopsy report.

: Exempts beneficiary designations for employee benefit plans and life insurance policies from automatic cancellations due to divorce.

: Revises temporary assistance for needy families, Medicaid, and grandparents as foster parents programs; revises adoption law; provides transition-to-independence grants.

: Division of benefits in divorce may begin on agreed upon date.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Mandates time limitations for custody decisions.

: Allows for the termination of guardianship of children in certain circumstances.

: Creates a fund court-appointed special advocates for children.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Creates the Missouri CASA Fund to support the CASA program in Missouri.

: Establishes a postsecondary education tuition and fee waiver for foster children.

: Makes various changes regarding child support and children's services.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.

: Makes the Department of Public Safety responsible for distribution of fees and surcharges collected for domestic violence shelters.

: Allows restraining orders against minors.

: Declares Child Citizenship Day.

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Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:50 am