Child Custody
Alaska 30th Legislature
Ocs Citizen Review Panel [SB-122]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
An Act repealing the authority for a child abuse or neglect citizen review panel in the Department of Health and Social Services; and establishing the Child Protection Citizen Review Panel in the office of the ombudsman.
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Gettr Alaska 30th Legislature
Adult Foster Care For Disabled; Medicaid [SB-10]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Disabilities ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
An Act relating to home and community-based waiver services under Medicaid; relating to personal care services; establishing an adult foster care home license and procedures in the Department of Health and Social Services; and providing for the transition of severely disabled individuals from foster care to adult foster care homes.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Child Visitation. [HB-983]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Amends the guidelines for the court to consider in awarding reasonable visitation rights to a grandparent or the grandparents of a minor child. Clarifies procedures for an order awarding reasonable visitation rights to grandparents and that a violation of the terms and conditions of such an order is subject to sanctions or contempt of court. (HB983 HD1)
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Grandparents. [SB-542]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allows the family court to award a grandparent, upon petition to the court, custody or visitation if it is in the best interest of the child and denial of such custody or visitation would cause significant harm to the child.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Child Visitation. [SB-422]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requires a finding that denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child as a condition of awarding grandparent visitation rights. Clarifies procedures for an order awarding reasonable grandparent visitation rights. Specifies that a violation of the terms and conditions of such an order is punishable as contempt of court. (SB422 HD1)
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Grandparents. [HB-435]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allows the family court to award a grandparent, upon petition to the court, custody rights to a minor child, and establishes criteria to obtain such custody. Adds criteria regarding the award by the family court of grandparent visitation rights to a minor child. (HB435 HD1)
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Family Law. [SB-167]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Temporarily requires parties in a divorce proceeding to refrain from moving a child from a county of residence, removing the child from school, interfering with custodial arrangements, or discontinuing payments on financial obligations. Expedites mediation and financial and property disclosure.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Child Visitation. [SB-216]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Adds as prerequisites to awarding visitation that the court finds that awarding visitation to grandparent is in the best interest of the child and that denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child. Clarifies procedures for awarding visitation. Deletes duplicative provision of awarding grandparents reasonable visitation rights.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Child Visitation. [HB-163]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Adds as prerequisites to awarding visitation that the court finds that awarding visitation to grandparent is in the best interest of the child and that denial of reasonable grandparent visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child. Clarifies procedures for awarding visitation. Deletes duplicative provision of awarding grandparents reasonable visitation rights.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Family Law - Child Support - Custody and Visitation [SB-1095]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the court, in any case in which the court determines child support, if there is no court order awarding custody and visitation of the child, to refer the parties to the resources available to assist them in establishing custody and visitation; and requiring the Child Support Enforcement Administration, when it has established a child support obligation and there is no court order awarding custody and visitation of the child, to refer the parties to the resources available to assist them in establishing custody and visitation.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Family Law. [HB-79]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Temporarily requires parties in a divorce proceeding to refrain from moving a child from a county of residence, removing the child from school, interfering with custodial arrangements, or discontinuing payments on financial obligations. Expedites mediation and financial and property disclosure.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Definitions [HB-1263]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Altering the definition of "abuse" for the purpose of specified child abuse and neglect statutes to include the physical or mental injury of a child by a person who, because of the person's position or occupation, exercises authority over the child under specified circumstances; providing that "abuse" does not include the physical injury of a child by accidental means; altering the definition of "mental injury" for the purpose of specified child abuse and neglect statutes; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Family Law - Grandparent Visitation [SB-1032]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the circumstances under which an equity court may grant visitation rights to a grandparent of a child.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect - Definitions [SB-996]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Altering the definition of "abuse" for the purpose of specified child abuse and neglect statutes to include the physical or mental injury of a child by a person who, because of the person's position or occupation, exercises authority over the child under specified circumstances; providing that "abuse" does not include the physical injury of a child by accidental means; altering the definition of "mental injury" for the purpose of specified child abuse and neglect statutes; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Legal Decision Making and Parenting Time - Shared Parenting Time for Family Equality Act [SB-905]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Creating a rebuttable presumption in specified legal decision making and parenting time proceedings that specified co-parenting arrangements are in the best interests of a child; authorizing a court to consider specified factors when determining the best interests of the child; authorizing the court to award primary legal decision making and parenting time under specified circumstances; requiring the court to enter specified information on the record; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Family Law - Grandparent Visitation [HB-812]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the circumstances under which an equity court may grant visitation rights to a grandparent of a child.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Child Custody and Visitation - Deployed Parents [HB-636]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
Prohibiting a court in any child custody or visitation proceeding from considering, in and of itself, a parent's past deployment or possible future deployment in determining the best interest of a child except under specified circumstances; authorizing a party or witness who is subject to deployment to provide testimony and present evidence by electronic means or by telephone under specified circumstances; authorizing the court to grant caretaking or decision-making authority to a nonparent under specified circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Child Custody - Legal Decision Making and Parenting Time [HB-508]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Repealing references to the terms "child custody" and "visitation" and substituting the terms "legal decision making" and "parenting time" in specified instances; requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation of legal decision making or parenting time between the parties, to consider specified factors; authorizing the court to award joint legal decision making to both parties under specified circumstances; etc.
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Maine 128th Legislature
An Act Concerning Guardians Ad Litem and Determinations Regarding the Best Interest of a Child in Custodial Relative Caregiver Cases [HB-429]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
An Act Concerning Guardians Ad Litem and Determinations Regarding the Best Interest of a Child in Custodial Relative Caregiver Cases
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Child Custody - Legal Decision Making and Parenting Time [SB-368]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Repealing references to the terms "child custody" and "visitation" and substituting the terms "legal decision making" and "parenting time" in specified instances; requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation of legal decision making or parenting time between the parties, to consider specified factors; authorizing the court to award joint legal decision making to both parties under specified circumstances; etc.