HB 7393 Summary

• Court may award attorney's fees and officer fees to petitioner when person found in contempt of family relations orders; state pays costs of imprisonment for contempt.

• Court may impose additional sanctions for contempt of custody, visitation, or parental access orders including fines, reduction or suspension of visitation, or change in custody assignment.

• Court shall not order supervised visitation absent agreement of parties unless court enters finding on record of circumstances necessitating supervision.

• Division of Public Defender Services becomes solely responsible for assigning guardians ad litem in family relations matters starting January 1, 2020, using sliding-scale fee methodology with maximum fee based on $100,000 gross combined income threshold.

• Requires redaction of personal identifying information (SSN, DOB, driver's license, etc.) in court filings; filer retains responsibility for redaction and retains unredacted original document.