Senate Bill 2122 Summary

• Creates Chapter 14-09.3 of North Dakota Century Code establishing the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act to address custody arrangements when military servicemembers are deployed.

• Amends custody modification standards to allow parents to enter temporary agreements allocating custodial responsibility during deployment, with provisions for non-parents to exercise caretaking or limited contact authority.

• Requires deploying parents to notify the other parent within seven days of receiving deployment notice and provide a plan for fulfilling custodial responsibilities during deployment.

• Establishes that temporary custody arrangements terminate automatically 60 days after a deploying parent returns from deployment unless both parents agree otherwise, and provides procedures for court-ordered temporary custody during deployment.

• Adds consideration of military servicemember deployment to custody determinations, specifying that a parent's past or possible future deployment may only be considered for its significant impact on the child's best interests, not deployment itself.