Charts 2020: Family Law in the Fifty States, D.C., and Puerto Rico, Part 2

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Charts 2020:

Family Law in the Fifty States,

D.C., and Puerto Rico, Part 2

Charts 2020, Part 2

Published in Family Law Quarterly, Volume 55, Number 2, 2022. © 2022 American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may

not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.

212 Family Law Quarterly, Volume 55, Number 2, 2021–2022

Editors’ Introduction:

Chart 5, Property Division Statutes, 2020,

and Chart 6, Child Support Statutes, 2020

A Continuation of Charts 2020: Family Law in the Fifty States, D.C., and Puerto Rico

Chart 5, Property Division Statutes, 2020, and Chart 6, Child Support Statutes, 2020, continue on from Charts 1–4, which were provided in the recent issue of Family

Law Quarterly, volume 54, issue number 4 (2021). As was explained in that issue, because family law is an everchanging eld that directly impacts individuals, children,

and families, we have updated some of our charts and we have also developed several new ones. In prior years, the FLQ “Year in Review” issue featured charts on

Alimony/Spousal Support Factors, Custody Criteria, Child Support Guidelines, Grounds for Divorce and Residency Requirements, Property Division, and Third-Party

Visitation. Going forward, the Year in Review will feature eight charts. Four of these were included in the last issue; two are published in this issue. All eight charts will

be published together in 2022.

The topics are as follows:

• Previous Issue (Vol. 54, Issue No. 4) (2021)

Chart 1: Divorce and Alimony/Maintenance

Chart 2: Child Custody

Chart 3: “Nonparent” Custody and Visitation

Chart 4: Child Representation in Child Welfare Proceedings

• Current Issue (Vol. 55, Issue No. 2) (2021–22)

Chart 5: Property Division

Chart 6: Child Support

• Future Issues

Chart 7: Parentage

Chart 8: Domestic Violence

In all eight charts, the information will highlight the considerable variation among the states and/or recent state legislative reforms. In future years, information will

be included about state legislative changes that impact the information provided for each state in the Chart. To underscore some of these issues and provide additional

details, we have added a “Notes” column to the Charts. The Notes column includes some statutory text excerpts, as well as some information about recent state legislation.

We have created a “key” for each chart to dene the terms used in each column; each key also provides a sense of what is captured in its corresponding chart and also

what is not captured. The keys also reference several secondary sources consulted by the Editors to supplement their own review of the statutory texts.

Published in Family Law Quarterly, Volume 55, Number 2, 2022. © 2022 American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may

not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.