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OK SB829

Bill

Status

Failed

2/19/2025

Primary Sponsor

Dusty Deevers

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Reorganizes and renumbers grounds for divorce in Oklahoma law, removing redundant provisions while maintaining existing grounds including adultery, extreme cruelty, abandonment, and incompatibility.

  • Modifies Section 107.2 educational program requirements for divorces based on incompatibility involving children under 18, requiring curriculum include divorce effects, reconciliation options, family violence, child behaviors, communication strategies, and community resources.

  • Requires courts to consider degree of fault/harm caused by parties in all property division orders entered in divorce cases.

  • Mandates at-fault parents in fault-based divorces establish a trust fund for each child within 60 days, funded based on parent's financial capacity and child's needs, with designated executor and restrictions on withdrawals until child reaches age 18 (except medical emergencies).

  • Provides penalties for unauthorized trust fund withdrawals or noncompliance including contempt proceedings, restitution plus up to 50% sanctions, and allows court to modify executor designation based on changed circumstances; effective November 1, 2025.

Legislative Description

Divorce; modifying permissible grounds for divorce; requiring court to consider degree of fault when entering certain orders; requiring court to order establishment of trust fund under certain circumstances. Effective date.

Last Action

Failed in Committee - Judiciary

2/19/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/4/2025

Full Bill Text

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