File Code: Family Law
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Frank and E. Burns
- Entitled:
-
Child Custody - Presumption of Joint Legal and Physical Custody
Establishing a presumption of joint legal and physical custody of a
child in a custody or visitation proceeding; and providing that the
presumption may be rebutted by a showing, based on a preponderance of
the evidence, that joint legal and physical custody is not in the best
interest of the child.
House Action
- 1/23
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/24
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Robert L. Frank, District 11
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CHILD CUSTODY
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Family Law
- (
9-101.2
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)