Subsequent modification of orders
This law is about changing court orders that deal with money payments, who a child lives with, or when a parent gets to visit a child. To change a payment order, something big and long-lasting has to have changed to make the old order unfair. To change a custody order, something important about the child or the parent's life has to have changed since the last order, and the change has to be good for the child. To change a visitation order, the change just has to be good for the child.
455.065. Subsequent of s. — 1. of any order respecting or support may be only as to occurring subsequent to the and only upon a showing of changed circumstances so substantial and continuing as to make the terms unreasonable.
2. Provisions of any order respecting may be modified only if the court finds, upon the basis of facts that have arisen since the prior order or that were unknown to the court at the time of the prior order, that a change has occurred in the circumstances of the child or his and that the modification is necessary to serve the .
3. Provisions of any order respecting may be modified when the modification would serve the best interests of the child.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1980 S.B. 524 § 12)
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