Proposed Law would state that equal parenting (shared custody) time is presumptively in children's best interests
House Bill 4113 / HB-4113 STATUS 1/20/18: Looks like the bill has been placed into the hands of the Rules Committee. There have about 19-20 co-sponsors to the bill and there was a hearing on the bill in mid-January 2018. There is a major change being proposed to address the battle of "traditional" custody (alternating weekends parenting time) vs. a presumption of equal parenting time - all with such a slight re-arrangement of words. Right now there really is no presumption one way or another although many believe that no presumption for equal parenting time is a presumption against it. I don’t really follow that line of thinking but I agree there is a problem to be addressed – just not this way (using a presumption). With 20 years of practicing family law and seeing presumptions come and go, I think a presumption in any direction is instituting a hurdle that shouldn't be there. A presumption in any form puts its fingers on the scale - many times at the expense of...