NJ A950

Requires the Administrative Office of the Courts to develop a parenting time questionnaire and evidence-based risk assessment guide for custody and parenting time decisions when a parent alleges violent or threatening behavior by the other parent

Mandates courts to temporarily suspend or restrict parenting time when a parent asserts child safety concerns due to the other parent's violent behavior, unless the court finds the claims arbitrary and capricious

Directs the Attorney General to create a validated, evidence-based risk assessment instrument for law enforcement to evaluate the likelihood a domestic violence offender will commit future violence against victims

Risk assessment results will assist with charging decisions (warrant vs. summons), pretrial detention determinations, victim protection during proceedings, sentencing strategies, and batterer intervention program design

Named "Monica's Law" after Monica Paul, who was shot to death in 2008 at a YMCA Family Center in Montclair in front of her two children by their father, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment