Child Custody
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing 2/14 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/14/2017
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Gettr Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Child Custody and Visitation - Deployed Parents [SB-10]
[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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bob Cassilly
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/17/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Veterans - Medical Cannabis [SB-68]
[Cannabis ]
[Crime ]
[Veterans ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
Adding posttraumatic stress disorder to the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the purposes of specified affirmative defenses to a charge of use or possession of marijuana; establishing a specified affirmative defense for a charge of use or possession of marijuana for a specified qualified veteran patient; establishing a specified written certification for a qualified veteran patient; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Young
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 02/06/2017
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to child custody evaluations; creating an offense. [SB-1236]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Relating to child custody evaluations; creating an offense.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jose Rodriguez
Read First Time on 03/13/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Judicial training; law related to rights of persons of legitimate interest in custody. [HB-2292]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Judicial training; law related to rights of persons Judicial training; law related to rights of persons of legitimate interest in custody and visitation proceedings. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to require that all juvenile and domestic relations district court judges receive training, at least once during each six-year judicial term, on the rights of persons of legitimate interest in child custody and visitation proceedings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Delores McQuinn
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Blind parents; custody or visitation rights. [HB-2273]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Human Services ]
Rights of blind parents. Provides that a blind parent's blindness, as defined in the bill, shall not be the sole basis of the denial or restriction of such parent's custody or visitation rights. The bill requires a party who alleges that a parent's blindness should be a factor to be considered to not be in the best interests of the child, or should otherwise be a reason to deny or restrict such a parent's custody or visitation rights, to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the child's best interests would not be met or served due to such
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/07/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Custody and visitation agreements; best interests of the child. [HB-2128]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Custody and visitation agreements; best interests of the child. Requires the court to consider any history of abuse of persons other than family members when determining the best interests of the child for the purposes of custody and visitation arrangements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Failed To Report (defeated) In Courts Of Justice (10-y 10-n) on 02/03/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Blind parents; custody or visitation rights. [SB-1199]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Rights of blind parents. Provides that a blind parent's blindness, as defined in the bill, shall not be the sole basis of the denial or restriction of such parent's custody or visitation rights. The bill requires a party who alleges that a parent's blindness should be a factor to be considered to not be in the best interests of the child, or should otherwise be a reason to deny or restrict such a parent's custody or visitation rights, to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the child's best interests would not be met or served due to such
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Sponsored by: Sen. Janet Howell
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/21/2017
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to child custody evaluations; creating an offense. [HB-1501]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Relating to child custody evaluations; creating an offense.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jose Rodriguez
Effective On 9/1/17 on 05/29/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Judicial training; law related to rights of persons of legitimate interest in custody, etc. [SB-1190]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Judicial training; law related to rights of persons of legitimate interest in custody and visitation proceedings. Directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to require that all juvenile and domestic relations district court judges receive training, at least once during each six-year judicial term, on the rights of persons of legitimate interest in child custody and visitation proceedings.
Sponsored by: Sen. Glen Sturtevant
Passed By Indefinitely In Courts Of Justice (15-y 0-n) on 02/01/2017
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to regulating the custody transfer of an adopted child; creating a criminal offense. [HB-834]
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[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
Relating to regulating the custody transfer of an adopted child; creating a criminal offense.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Birdwell
Effective On 9/1/17 on 06/15/2017
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct. [HB-573]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ron Reynolds
Read First Time on 03/01/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Court-ordered custody and visitation arrangements; transmission of order to child's school. [HB-1586]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Court-ordered custody and visitation arrangements; transmission of order to child's school. Provides that, in any custody or visitation case in which an order prohibiting a party from picking a child up from school is entered, the court shall order a party to provide a copy of such order to the child's school within three business days of the receipt of the order. The bill requires that, where a custody determination affects a child's school enrollment, the court order a party to provide a copy of the custody order to the child's new school within
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0509) on 03/16/2017
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to equal parenting orders in suits affecting the parent-child relationship. [HB-453]
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[Children and Youth ]
Relating to equal parenting orders in suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
Sponsored by: Rep. Briscoe Cain
Read First Time on 02/20/2017
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct. [SB-251]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jose Rodriguez
Read First Time on 01/30/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Parenting time; replaces "visitation" in statutory language. [HB-271]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Parenting time. Replaces "visitation" with "parenting time" in statutory language relating to the custody and visitation of minor children. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2017.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Albo
Left In Courts Of Justice on 12/01/2016