AB 2882 Summary

• Requires court order and written consent of at least one parent or guardian (rather than both parents/guardians) for underage marriage, and changes duplicate marriage license timeframes from one year after issuance to one year after the date of marriage.

• Expands name change options for married persons to allow combinations of last names and middle names without requiring hyphenation.

• Allows petitioners adopting dependent children freed by juvenile court to file adoption requests in either the county where the petitioner resides or where the child was freed for adoption.

• Reduces required copies of relinquishment requests from licensed private adoption agencies from 10 to 5 copies and extends filing deadline from 5 to 10 court days.

• Transfers child support registry and enforcement functions from Welfare and Institutions Code to Family Code, reduces data entry timeline to 5 business days, and accelerates PERS benefits intercept procedures for child support collection.

• Ratifies Judicial Council authority to convert 10 subordinate judicial officer positions to judgeships in fiscal year 2016-17 for family law and juvenile law assignments.