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AB337,87 17Section 87 . 69.15 (3m) (title), (a) (intro.) and 3. and (b) of the statutes are
18amended to read:
AB337,33,2219 69.15 (3m) (title) Rescission of statement acknowledging paternity
20parentage. (a) (intro.) A statement acknowledging paternity parentage that is filed
21with the state registrar under sub. (3) (b) 3. may be rescinded by either person who
22signed the statement as a parent of the registrant if all of the following apply:
AB337,34,223 3. The person rescinding the statement files a rescission in the method
24prescribed under subd. 2. before the day on which a court or circuit court
25commissioner makes an order in an action affecting the family involving the man

1person who signed the statement and the child who is the subject of the statement
2or before 60 days elapse after the statement was filed, whichever occurs first.
AB337,34,63 (b) If the state registrar, within the time required under par. (a) 3., receives a
4rescission in the method prescribed by the state registrar, along with the proper fee
5under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall prepare under sub. (6) a new record omitting
6the father's parent's name if it was inserted under sub. (3) (b).
AB337,88 7Section 88 . 71.03 (2) (d) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,34,88 71.03 (2) (d) (title) Husband and wife Spouses joint filing.
AB337,89 9Section 89 . 71.03 (2) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,34,1210 71.03 (2) (d) 1. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3. and par. (e), a husband
11and a wife
spouses may file a joint return for income tax purposes even though one
12of the spouses has no gross income or no deductions.
AB337,90 13Section 90 . 71.03 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,34,1714 71.03 (2) (d) 2. No joint return may be filed if either the husband or wife spouse
15at any time during the taxable year is a nonresident alien, unless an election is in
16effect for the taxable year under section 6013 (g) or (h) of the internal revenue code
17Internal Revenue Code.
AB337,91 18Section 91 . 71.03 (2) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,34,2519 71.03 (2) (d) 3. No joint return may be filed if the husband and wife spouses
20have different taxable years, except that if their taxable years begin on the same day
21and end on different days because of the death of either or both the joint return may
22be filed with respect to the taxable year of each unless the surviving spouse remarries
23before the close of his or her taxable year or unless the taxable year of either spouse
24is a fractional part of a year under section 443 (a) (1) of the internal revenue code
25Internal Revenue Code.
AB337,92
1Section 92. 71.03 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,35,162 71.03 (2) (g) Joint return following separate return. Except as provided in par.
3(i), if an individual has filed a separate return for a taxable year for which a joint
4return could have been filed by the individual and the individual's spouse under par.
5(d) or (e) and the time prescribed by law for timely filing the return for that taxable
6year has expired, the individual and the individual's spouse may file a joint return
7for that taxable year. A joint return filed by the husband and wife spouses under this
8paragraph is their return for that taxable year, and all payments, credits, refunds
9or other repayments made or allowed with respect to the separate return of each
10spouse for that taxable year shall be taken into account in determining the extent
11to which the tax based upon the joint return has been paid. If a joint return is filed
12under this paragraph, any election, other than the election to file a separate return,
13made by either spouse in that spouse's separate return for that taxable year with
14respect to the treatment of any income, deduction or credit of that spouse may not
15be changed in the filing of the joint return if that election would have been irrevocable
16if the joint return had not been filed.
AB337,93 17Section 93 . 71.03 (2) (m) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,35,2118 71.03 (2) (m) 2. If a husband and wife spouses change from a joint return to
19separate returns within the time prescribed in subd. 1., the tax paid on the joint
20return shall be allocated between them in proportion to the tax liability shown on
21each separate return.
AB337,94 22Section 94 . 71.03 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,36,723 71.03 (4) (a) Natural persons whose total income is not in excess of $10,000 and
24consists entirely of wages subject to withholding for Wisconsin tax purposes and not
25more than $200 total of dividends, interest and other wages not subject to Wisconsin

1withholding, and who have elected the Wisconsin standard deduction and have not
2claimed either the credit for homestead property tax relief or deductions for expenses
3incurred in earning such income, shall, at their election, not be required to record on
4their income tax returns the amount of the tax imposed on their Wisconsin taxable
5income. Married persons shall be permitted this election only if the joint income of
6the husband and wife spouses does not exceed $10,000, if both report their incomes
7on the same joint income tax return form, and if both make this election.
AB337,95 8Section 95. 71.05 (22) (a) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,36,109 71.05 (22) (a) (title) Election of deductions; husband and wife spousal
10deductions.
AB337,96 11Section 96. 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,36,1312 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to
13the claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
AB337,97 14Section 97 . 71.07 (9e) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,36,1815 71.07 (9e) (b) No credit may be allowed under this subsection to married
16persons, except married persons living apart who are treated as single under section
177703 (b) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code, if the husband and wife
18spouses report their income on separate income tax returns for the taxable year.
AB337,98 19Section 98. 71.09 (13) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,37,220 71.09 (13) (a) 2. The tax shown on the return for the preceding year. If a
21husband and wife
spouses who filed separate returns for the preceding taxable year
22file a joint return, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the sum of
23the taxes shown on the separate returns of the husband and wife spouses. If a
24husband and wife
spouses who filed a joint return for the preceding taxable year file
25separate returns, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the husband's

1or wife's
each spouse's proportion of that tax based on what their respective tax
2liabilities for that year would have been had they filed separately.
AB337,99 3Section 99 . 71.52 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,37,54 71.52 (4) “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to the
5claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
AB337,100 6Section 100 . 71.83 (1) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,37,137 71.83 (1) (a) 8. `Joint return replacing separate returns.' If the amount shown
8as the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2)
9(g) to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax upon the separate return
10of each spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to negligence or
11intentional disregard of this chapter, but without intent to defraud, at the time of the
12filing of that separate return, then 25 percent of the total amount of that excess shall
13be added to the tax.
AB337,101 14Section 101 . 71.83 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,37,2015 71.83 (1) (b) 5. `Joint return after separate returns.' If the amount shown as
16the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2) (g)
17to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax on the separate return of each
18spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to fraud with intent to evade tax
19at the time of the filing of that separate return, then 50 percent of the total amount
20of that excess shall be added to the tax.
AB337,102 21Section 102 . 77.25 (8m) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,37,2222 77.25 (8m) Between husband and wife spouses.
AB337,103 23Section 103 . 77.54 (7) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,38,224 77.54 (7) (b) 1. The item is transferred to a child, spouse, parent, father-in-law,
25mother-in-law
parent-in-law, daughter-in-law , or son-in-law of the transferor or,

1if the item is a motor vehicle, from the transferor to a corporation owned solely by the
2transferor or by the transferor's spouse.
AB337,104 3Section 104 . 101.91 (5m) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,38,94 101.91 (5m) “Manufactured home community" means any plot or plots of
5ground upon which 3 or more manufactured homes that are occupied for dwelling or
6sleeping purposes are located. “Manufactured home community" does not include a
7farm where the occupants of the manufactured homes are the father, mother, son,
8daughter, brother or sister
parents, children, or siblings of the farm owner or
9operator or where the occupants of the manufactured homes work on the farm.
AB337,105 10Section 105 . 102.07 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,38,1311 102.07 (5) (b) The parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, son-in-law,
12daughter-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law parent-in-law, brother-in-law, or
13sister-in-law of a farmer shall not be deemed the farmer's employees.
AB337,106 14Section 106 . 102.07 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,38,2115 102.07 (5) (c) A shareholder-employee of a family farm corporation shall be
16deemed a “farmer" for purposes of this chapter and shall not be deemed an employee
17of a farmer. A “family farm corporation" means a corporation engaged in farming all
18of whose shareholders are related as lineal ancestors or lineal descendants, whether
19by blood or by adoption, or as spouses, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins,
20sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law parents-in-law,
21brothers-in-law, or sisters-in-law of such lineal ancestors or lineal descendants.
AB337,107 22Section 107. 102.51 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,38,2423 102.51 (1) (a) 1. A wife married person upon a husband his or her spouse with
24whom he or she is living at the time of his the spouse's death.
AB337,108 25Section 108. 102.51 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
AB337,109
1Section 109. 103.10 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,39,32 103.10 (1) (h) “Spouse" means an employee's legal husband or wife the person
3to whom an employee is legally married
.
AB337,110 4Section 110 . 103.165 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,39,65 103.165 (3) (a) 3. The decedent's father or mother parent or parents if the
6decedent leaves no surviving spouse, domestic partner under ch. 770, or children.
AB337,111 7Section 111. 111.32 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,39,98 111.32 (12) “Marital status" means the status of being married, single,
9divorced, separated, or widowed a surviving spouse.
AB337,112 10Section 112 . 115.76 (12) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,39,1111 115.76 (12) (a) 1. A biological natural parent.
AB337,113 12Section 113 . 115.76 (12) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
AB337,114 13Section 114 . 115.76 (12) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
AB337,115 14Section 115 . 115.76 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,39,2115 115.76 (13) “Person acting as a parent of a child" means a relative of the child
16or a private individual allowed to act as a parent of a child by the child's biological
17natural or adoptive parents or guardian, and includes the child's grandparent,
18neighbor, friend or private individual caring for the child with the explicit or tacit
19approval of the child's biological natural or adoptive parents or guardian. “Person
20acting as a parent of a child" does not include any person that receives public funds
21to care for the child if such funds exceed the cost of such care.
AB337,116 22Section 116. 146.34 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,40,323 146.34 (1) (f) “Parent" means a biological natural parent, a husband who has
24consented to the artificial insemination of his wife under s. 891.40
or a parent by
25adoption. If the minor is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do

1not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803, “parent" includes a person adjudged
2in a judicial proceeding under ch. 48 to be the biological father of the minor. “Parent"
3does not include any person whose parental rights have been terminated.
AB337,117 4Section 117. 157.05 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,40,11 5157.05 Autopsy. Consent for a licensed physician to conduct an autopsy on
6the body of a deceased person shall be deemed sufficient when given by whichever
7one of the following assumes custody of the body for purposes of burial: Father,
8mother, husband, wife
parent, spouse, child, guardian, next of kin, domestic partner
9under ch. 770, or in the absence of any of the foregoing, a friend, or a person charged
10by law with the responsibility for burial. If 2 or more such persons assume custody
11of the body, the consent of one of them shall be deemed sufficient.
AB337,118 12Section 118. 182.004 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,40,1813 182.004 (6) Stock may be issued and leases made to husband and wife spouses,
14and to the survivor of them, in which event title shall descend the same as in like
15conveyances of real property subject to ch. 766. Otherwise, title to the stock and lease
16shall descend to the persons to whom a homestead of the stockholder would descend
17except as provided in ch. 766. The interest of a tenant in the lease and stock shall
18be exempt from execution to the same extent as a homestead in real estate.
AB337,119 19Section 119 . 250.04 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,40,2320 250.04 (3) (a) The department shall establish and maintain surveillance
21activities sufficient to detect any occurrence of acute, communicable , or chronic
22diseases and threat of occupational or environmental hazards, injuries , or changes
23in the health of mothers parents and children.
AB337,120 24Section 120. 301.12 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,41,22
1301.12 (2) Except as provided in subs. (2m) and (14) (b) and (c), any person,
2including a person placed under s. 938.183, 938.32 (1) (bm) or (c), 938.34 (4h) or (4m),
3or 938.357 (1), (2m), (4), or (5) (e), receiving care, maintenance, services, and supplies
4provided by any institution in this state operated or contracted for by the
5department, in which the state is chargeable with all or part of the person's care,
6maintenance, services, and supplies, and the person's property and estate, including
7the homestead, and the spouse of the person, and the spouse's property and estate,
8including the homestead, and, in the case of a minor child, the parents of the person,
9and their property and estates, including their homestead, and, in the case of a
10foreign child described in s. 48.839 (1) who became dependent on public funds for his
11or her primary support before an order granting his or her adoption, the resident of
12this state appointed guardian of the child by a foreign court who brought the child
13into this state for the purpose of adoption, and his or her property and estate,
14including his or her homestead, shall be liable for the cost of the care, maintenance,
15services, and supplies in accordance with the fee schedule established by the
16department under s. 301.03 (18). If a spouse, widow surviving spouse, or minor, or
17an incapacitated person, may be lawfully dependent upon the property for his or her
18support, the court shall release all or such part of the property and estate from the
19charges that may be necessary to provide for that person. The department shall
20make every reasonable effort to notify the liable persons as soon as possible after the
21beginning of the maintenance, but the notice or the receipt of the notice is not a
22condition of liability.
AB337,121 23Section 121 . 301.50 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,42,824 301.50 (1) In this section, “substantial parental relationship" means the
25acceptance and exercise of significant responsibility for the daily supervision,

1education, protection, and care of the child. In evaluating whether an individual has
2had a substantial parental relationship with the child, factors that may be
3considered include, but are not limited to, whether the individual has expressed
4concern for or interest in the support, care, or well-being of the child; whether the
5individual has neglected or refused to provide care or support for the child; and
6whether, with respect to an individual who is or may be the father a parent of the
7child, the individual has expressed concern for or interest in the support, care, or
8well-being of the mother during her parent who gave birth during pregnancy.
AB337,122 9Section 122. 700.19 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,42,1710 700.19 (2) Husband and wife Spouses. If persons named as owners in a
11document of title, transferees in an instrument of transfer, or buyers in a bill of sale
12are described in the document, instrument, or bill of sale as husband and wife
13married to each other, or are in fact husband and wife married to each other, they are
14joint tenants, unless the intent to create a tenancy in common is expressed in the
15document, instrument, or bill of sale. This subsection applies to property acquired
16before January 1, 1986, and, if ch. 766 does not apply when the property is acquired,
17to property acquired on or after January 1, 1986.
AB337,123 18Section 123. 705.01 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,42,2419 705.01 (4) “Joint account" means an account, other than a marital account,
20payable on request to one or more of 2 or more parties whether or not mention is made
21of any right of survivorship. “Joint account" also means any account established with
22the right of survivorship on or after January 1, 1986, by 2 parties who claim to be
23husband and wife married to each other, which is payable on request to either or both
24of the parties.
AB337,124 25Section 124. 705.01 (4m) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,43,6
1705.01 (4m) “Marital account" means an account established without the right
2of survivorship on or after January 1, 1986, by 2 parties who claim to be husband and
3wife
married to each other, which is payable on request to either or both of the parties
4and which is designated as a marital account. An account established by those
5parties with the right of survivorship under s. 766.58 (3) (f) or 766.60 is a joint
6account.
AB337,125 7Section 125. 706.09 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,43,148 706.09 (1) (e) Marital interests. Homestead of the spouse of any transferor of
9an interest in real estate, if the recorded conveyance purporting to transfer the
10homestead states that the person executing it is single, unmarried , or widowed a
11surviving spouse
or fails to indicate the marital status of the transferor, and if the
12conveyance has, in either case, appeared of record for 5 years. This paragraph does
13not apply to the interest of a married person who is described of record as a holder
14in joint tenancy or of marital property with that transferor.
AB337,126 15Section 126 . 765.001 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,44,816 765.001 (2) Intent. It is the intent of chs. 765 to 768 to promote the stability
17and best interests of marriage and the family. It is the intent of the legislature to
18recognize the valuable contributions of both spouses during the marriage and at
19termination of the marriage by dissolution or death. Marriage is the institution that
20is the foundation of the family and of society. Its stability is basic to morality and
21civilization, and of vital interest to society and the state. The consequences of the
22marriage contract are more significant to society than those of other contracts, and
23the public interest must be taken into account always. The seriousness of marriage
24makes adequate premarital counseling and education for family living highly
25desirable and courses thereon are urged upon all persons contemplating marriage.

1The impairment or dissolution of the marriage relation generally results in injury
2to the public wholly apart from the effect upon the parties immediately concerned.
3Under the laws of this state, marriage is a legal relationship between 2 equal
4persons, a husband and wife, who owe to each other mutual responsibility and
5support. Each spouse has an equal obligation in accordance with his or her ability
6to contribute money or services or both which are necessary for the adequate support
7and maintenance of his or her minor children and of the other spouse. No spouse may
8be presumed primarily liable for support expenses under this subsection.
AB337,127 9Section 127 . 765.01 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,44,13 10765.01 A civil contract. Marriage, so far as its validity at law is concerned,
11is a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting
12is essential, and which creates the legal status of husband and wife spouse to each
13other
.
AB337,128 14Section 128. 765.02 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
AB337,44,1615 765.02 (3) Marriage may be contracted between persons of the same sex or
16different sexes.
AB337,129 17Section 129 . 765.03 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,45,318 765.03 (1) No marriage shall be contracted while either of the parties has a
19husband or wife spouse living, nor between persons who are nearer of kin than 2nd
20cousins except that marriage may be contracted between first cousins where the
21female has attained the age of 55 years or where
if either party, at the time of
22application for a marriage license, submits an affidavit signed by a physician stating
23that either party is permanently sterile or that the 2 parties are otherwise
24permanently biologically incapable of producing a child together
. Relationship
25under this section shall be computed by the rule of the civil law, whether the parties

1to the marriage are of the half or of the whole blood. A marriage may not be
2contracted if either party has such want of understanding as renders him or her
3incapable of assenting to marriage.
AB337,130 4Section 130. 765.16 (1m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,45,105 765.16 (1m) (intro.) Marriage may be validly solemnized and contracted in this
6state only after a marriage license has been issued therefor, and only by the mutual
7declarations of the 2 parties to be joined in marriage that they take each takes the
8other as husband and wife his or her spouse, made before an authorized officiating
9person and in the presence of at least 2 competent adult witnesses other than the
10officiating person. The following are authorized to be officiating persons:
AB337,131 11Section 131. 765.16 (1m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB337,45,1512 765.16 (1m) (c) The 2 parties themselves, by mutual declarations that they
13take
each takes the other as husband and wife his or her spouse, in accordance with
14the customs, rules, and regulations of any religious society, denomination, or sect to
15which either of the parties may belong.
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