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2010 SESSION
SB 436 Emergency protective and removal orders; party shall file in circuit court any petition therefor.
Introduced by: John S. Edwards | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Appeals of emergency protective and removal orders. Provides that a party shall file in circuit court, which shall hear and determine, any petition for a preliminary protective/removal order if (i) the party previously filed in juvenile and domestic relations district court a petition for an emergency protective/removal order; (ii) the juvenile and domestic relations district court issued such order for the emergency protection/removal of a child; (iii) a timely appeal of the order was filed by the parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person standing in loco parentis of the child; (iv) the circuit court set a hearing on the appeal for a date certain or on a motions docket to be heard within five days of the entry of the emergency protective/removal order; and (v) the purpose for which the party seeks a petition for a preliminary protective/removal order is for the protection/removal of the same child. The juvenile and domestic relations district courts shall be divested of the right to enter any preliminary protective/removal order that involves the same child if all of the conditions set forth in clauses (i) through (v) exist.
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HISTORY
- 01/13/10 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10100596D
- 01/13/10 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/14/10 Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Civil
- 02/16/10 Senate: Left in Courts of Justice