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MI SB1000

Bill

Status

Passed

12/31/2012

Primary Sponsor

James Marleau

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Origin

Senate

96th Legislature

AI Summary

  • Establishes presumption that it is in a child's best interests to have a strong relationship with both parents and grants parenting time in frequency, duration, and type to promote this relationship.

  • Requires courts to order parenting time terms agreed upon by parents unless clear and convincing evidence shows the terms are not in the child's best interests.

  • Prohibits parenting time to a parent convicted of criminal sexual conduct (MCL 750.520a to 750.520e and 750.520g) involving the child or child's sibling, unless both the other parent and the child (if of sufficient age) consent.

  • Prohibits parenting time exercise in countries not party to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction unless both parents provide written consent.

  • Allows courts to consider factors including special circumstances, age of nursing child, risk of abuse or neglect, child's travel burden, parent's compliance history, and threatened detention when determining parenting time terms.

Legislative Description

Family law; parenting time; parenting time in a country not a party to the Hague convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction; prohibit. Amends sec. 7a of 1970 PA 91 (MCL 722.27a).

Children, parental rights

Last Action

Assigned Pa 0600'12 With Immediate Effect

12/31/2012

Committee Referrals

Judiciary3/1/2012

Full Bill Text

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