File Code: Family Law
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 833/97 - JUD
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 571
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Dembrow, Montague, Genn, Dypski, Fulton, Faulkner, E.
Burns, Perry, O'Donnell, Workman, Valderrama, Palumbo, Bissett, and
Frank
- Entitled:
-
Family Law - Child Custody - Rebuttable Presumption of Joint Legal
Custody
Creating a rebuttable presumption of joint legal custody; requiring a
court to make residential arrangements for a child; and requiring a
court to award sole custody of a child if the court does not award
joint legal custody.
House Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/4
- Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/9
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, District 20
- Delegate Phillip D. Bissett, District 30
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Delegate Cornell N. Dypski, District 46
- Delegate Patricia Anne Faulkner, District 14A
- Delegate Robert L. Frank, District 11
- Delegate Tony Edward Fulton, District 40
- Delegate Gilbert J. Genn, District 16
- Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
- Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell, District 29C
- Delegate Richard A. Palumbo, District 22A
- Delegate Marsha G. Perry, District 33
- Delegate David M. Valderrama, District 26
- Delegate Betty Workman, District 1B
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CHILD CUSTODY
- COURTS -see also- CIRCUIT COURTS; DISTRICT COURTS
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; DIVORCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Family Law
- (
9-101 ,
9-101 ,
9-101.1 ,
9-102 ,
9-103
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
