Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3169

E Relating to family law ARTICLE 1 PARENTING PLANS AND PARENTING TIMEProviding
for the voluntary creation of parenting plans and parenting time upon request
and agreement of both parents in lieu of an order for child custody and
visitation, exception for court determination of best interests of the child,
defining parenting time and domestic abuse, authorizing the court to order
temporary support and maintenance during development of parenting plans and to
create parenting plans in cases of disagreement, exception in cases of domestic
abuse; specifying certain plan content requirements and options; prohibiting a
requirement to create the plans as part of modification orders or during actions
against parents for the amount of public assistance furnished; requiring custody
designations in final judgments and decrees including parenting plans for
enforcement purposes; providing for the role of the court in creating the plans
in certain cases and specifying certain restrictions on preparation of parenting
plans relating to the use of dispute resolution processes in cases of domestic,
physical, sexual or emotional abuse or abandonment; authorizing the plans to
include an agreement governing decisions relating to removal of the child to
another state and the allocation of expenses; providing for modification of the
plans or parenting time and for court consideration of motions to replace
current custody or visitation orders with parenting plans upon request of both
parties ARTICLE 2 CONFORMING TERMINOLOGYChanging the terms child or family
visitation to parenting time in certain statutory provisions relating to victims
of violence, family visitation centers, early childhood learning and child
protection facilities, family services collaboratives, MinnesotaCare, child
custody and visitation, recognition of parentage, designated caregivers, child
and domestic abuse, community dispute resolution program guidelines, disposition
of the marriage license fee, marriage dissolution, antenuptial and postnuptial
contracts, child abuse reporting and certain domestic crimes provisions;
authorizing the commencement of actions to determine custody and parenting time
without an adjudication of parentage (mk, ja)