SB 112

Under current law, in an action affecting a family that involves a child, the court

is required to determine the legal custody and the physical placement of the child.

Current law requires the court to set a physical placement schedule that allows a

child to have regularly occurring, meaningful periods of physical placement with

each parent and that maximizes the amount of time for a child with each parent. In

determining a physical placement schedule, a court must, in each case, consider a

statutory list of best-interest factors.

This bill specifies that if a court grants less than 25 percent of physical

placement to one parent in a temporary or final order in an action affecting the

family, specific findings of fact must be entered as to the reason greater physical

placement with that parent is not in the best interest of the child.

The bill also reorganizes the statutory best-interest factors, removing two

considerations: the stability in placement and availability of child care services. The

bill also specifies that the factors are not necessarily listed in order of importance.