SF2759 Summary

• Parenting Time & Child Custody: Establishes public policy ensuring children have frequent contact with both parents; creates rebuttable presumption that each child receives minimum 25% parenting time with each parent; adds remedies including compensatory parenting time and up to $500 sanctions for repeated denial of court-ordered parenting time.

• Spousal Maintenance: Changes terminology from "temporary/permanent" to "transitional/indefinite"; establishes rebuttable presumptions based on marriage length (less than 5 years = no maintenance; 5-20 years = transitional; 20+ years = indefinite); adds grounds for modification due to retirement and cohabitation.

• Antenuptial & Postnuptial Agreements: Updates requirements for procedural and substantive fairness; requires 7-day waiting period before marriage for antenuptial agreements; requires separate legal counsel for postnuptial agreements; allows severability of unenforceable provisions.

• Assisted Reproduction: Establishes new chapter creating framework for determining parentage in assisted reproduction cases; defines rights and responsibilities of intended parents, donors, and spouses; allows court orders establishing parental rights before birth of child.

• Gender-Neutral Language: Directs revisor of statutes to replace gendered terms ("husband," "wife") with gender-neutral alternatives ("spouse") throughout Minnesota Statutes.