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SB70-AA10,508 6Section 508. 54.01 (36) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,248,117 54.01 (36) (a) An individual who obtains or consents to a final decree or
8judgment of divorce from the decedent or an annulment of their marriage, if the
9decree or judgment is not recognized as valid in this state, unless the 2 subsequently
10participated in a marriage ceremony purporting to marry each other or they
11subsequently held themselves out as husband and wife married to each other.
SB70-AA10,509 12Section 509. 54.960 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,248,1913 54.960 (1) Beneficial interests in a custodial trust created for multiple
14beneficiaries are deemed to be separate custodial trusts of equal undivided interests
15for each beneficiary. Except in a transfer or declaration for use and benefit of
16husband and wife 2 individuals who are married to each other, for whom
17survivorship is presumed, a right of survivorship does not exist unless the
18instrument creating the custodial trust specifically provides for survivorship or
19survivorship is required as to marital property.
SB70-AA10,510 20Section 510. 69.03 (15) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,248,2421 69.03 (15) Periodically provide to each county child support agency under s.
2259.53 (5) a list of names and, notwithstanding s. 69.20 (2) (a), addresses of registrants
23who reside in that county for whom no father's only one parent's name has been
24inserted on the registrant's birth record within 6 months of birth.
SB70-AA10,511 25Section 511. 69.11 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,249,14
169.11 (4) (b) The state registrar may amend an item on a birth record that
2affects information about the name, sex, date of birth, place of birth, parent's name,
3or parent's marital status of the mother if 365 days have elapsed since the occurrence
4of the event that is the subject of the birth record, if the amendment is at the request
5of a person with a direct and tangible interest in the record and is in the manner
6prescribed by the state registrar, and if the amendment is accompanied by 2 items
7of documentary evidence from early childhood that are sufficient to prove that the
8item to be changed is in error and by the affidavit of the person requesting the
9amendment. A change in the marital status on the birth record may be made under
10this paragraph only if the marital status is inconsistent with information concerning
11the father or husband
that appears on the birth record. This paragraph may not be
12used to add to or delete from a birth record the name of a parent, to change the
13identity of a parent named on the birth record, or to effect a name change prohibited
14under s. 301.47.
SB70-AA10,512 15Section 512. 69.12 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,249,2016 69.12 (5) A change in the marital status on the record of birth may be requested
17under this section only if the marital status is inconsistent with father or husband
18information appearing on the birth record. This section may not be used to add or
19delete the name of a parent on the record of birth or change the identity of either
20parent named on the birth record.
SB70-AA10,513 21Section 513. 69.13 (2) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,250,222 69.13 (2) (b) 4. If relevant to the correction sought, a certified copy of a marriage
23document, divorce or annulment record, or a final divorce decree that indicates that
24the mother was not married to the person listed as her husband spouse at any time

1during the pregnancy, a legal name change order, or any other legal document that
2clarifies the disputed information.
SB70-AA10,514 3Section 514. 69.14 (1) (c) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,250,74 69.14 (1) (c) 4. In the absence of a person under subds. 1. to 3., the father or
5mother, father, or mother's spouse, or in the absence of the father or the mother's
6spouse
and the inability of the mother, the person responsible for the premises where
7the birth occurs.
SB70-AA10,515 8Section 515. 69.14 (1) (e) (title) and 1. of the statutes are amended to read:
SB70-AA10,250,149 69.14 (1) (e) (title) Father's Spouse's or father's name. 1. If Except as provided
10in par. (h), if
the mother of a registrant under this section was married at any time
11from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the name of the husband spouse
12of the mother shall be entered on the birth record as the a legal father parent of the
13registrant. The name of the father parent entered under this subdivision may not
14be changed except by a proceeding under ch. 767.
SB70-AA10,516 15Section 516. 69.14 (1) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,250,2116 69.14 (1) (f) 1. a. Except as provided under subd. 1. b., if the mother of a
17registrant of a birth record under this section is married to the father of the
18registrant
at any time from the conception to the birth of the registrant, the given
19name and surname which that the mother and father of the registrant and her
20spouse
enter for the registrant on the birth record shall be the given name and
21surname filed and registered on the birth record.
SB70-AA10,251,522 b. If the mother of a registrant of a birth record under this section is married
23to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth of the
24registrant and the mother is separated or divorced from the father of the registrant
25at the time of birth, the given name and surname which that the parent of the

1registrant with actual custody enters for the registrant on the birth record shall be
2the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth record, except that if
3a court has granted legal custody of the registrant, the given name and surname
4which that the person with legal custody enters for the registrant on the birth record
5shall be the given name and surname filed and registered on the birth record.
SB70-AA10,251,136 c. If the mother of a registrant of a birth record under this section is not married
7to the father of the registrant at any time from the conception to the birth of the
8registrant, the given name and surname which that the mother of the registrant
9enters for the registrant on the birth record shall be the given name and surname
10filed and registered on the birth record, except that if a court has granted legal
11custody of the registrant, the given name and surname which that the person with
12legal custody enters for the registrant on the birth record shall be the given name and
13surname filed and registered on the birth record.
SB70-AA10,517 14Section 517. 69.14 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,251,2115 69.14 (1) (g) Birth by artificial insemination. If the registrant of a birth record
16under this section is born as a result of artificial insemination under the
17requirements of s. 891.40, the husband spouse of the woman person inseminated
18shall be considered the father a parent of the registrant on the birth record. If the
19registrant is born as a result of artificial insemination which does not satisfy the
20requirements of s. 891.40, the information about the father of the registrant shall be
21omitted from the registrant's birth record.
SB70-AA10,518 22Section 518. 69.14 (2) (b) 2. d. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,252,223 69.14 (2) (b) 2. d. The full name of the father or the mother's spouse, except that
24if the mother was not married at the time of conception or birth or between conception

1and birth of the registrant, the name of the father may not be entered except as
2provided under s. 69.15 (3).
SB70-AA10,519 3Section 519. 69.15 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,252,84 69.15 (1) Birth record information changes. The state registrar may change
5information on a birth record registered in this state which was correct at the time
6the birth record was filed under a court or administrative order issued in this state,
7in another state or in Canada or under the valid order of a court of any federally
8recognized Indian tribe, band, or nation if all of the following occur:
SB70-AA10,252,109 (a) The order provides for an adoption, name change, or name change with sex
10change or establishes paternity; and or parentage.
SB70-AA10,252,1511 (b) A clerk of court or, for a paternity or parentage action, a clerk of court or
12county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5), sends the state registrar a certified
13report of an order of a court in this state in the method prescribed by the state
14registrar or, in the case of any other order, the state registrar receives a certified copy
15of the order and the proper fee under s. 69.22.
SB70-AA10,520 16Section 520. 69.15 (3) (title) and (a) (intro.), 1., 2. and 3. of the statutes are
17amended to read:
SB70-AA10,252,2218 69.15 (3) (title) Paternity Parentage. (a) (intro.) If the state registrar receives
19an order under sub. (1) that establishes paternity or determines that the man person
20whose name appears on a registrant's birth record is not the father parent of the
21registrant, or a report under s. 767.804 (1) (c) that shows a conclusive determination
22of paternity, the state registrar shall do the following, as appropriate:
SB70-AA10,253,223 1. Prepare under sub. (6) a new record omitting the father's parent's name if
24the order determines that the man person whose name appears on a registrant's

1birth record is not the father parent of the registrant and if there is no adjudicated
2father.
SB70-AA10,253,53 2. Prepare under sub. (6) a new record for the subject of a paternity action
4changing the name of the father parent if the name of the adjudicated father is
5different than the name of the man person on the birth record.
SB70-AA10,253,86 3. Except as provided under subd. 4., insert the name of the adjudicated or
7conclusively determined father on the original birth record if the name of the father
8that parent was omitted on the original record.
SB70-AA10,521 9Section 521. 69.15 (3) (b) 1., 2., 3. and 4. (intro.), a. and b. of the statutes are
10amended to read:
SB70-AA10,253,1911 69.15 (3) (b) 1. Except as provided under par. (c), if the state registrar receives
12a statement acknowledging paternity parentage in the manner prescribed by the
13state registrar and signed by both of the birth natural parents of a child determined
14to be a marital child under s. 767.803, a certified copy of the parents' marriage record,
15and the fee required under s. 69.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name
16of the husband spouse of the person who gave birth from the marriage record as the
17father parent if the name of the father that parent was omitted on the original birth
18record. The state registrar shall include for the acknowledgment the items in s.
19767.813 (5g).
SB70-AA10,253,2420 2. Except as provided under par. (c), if the parent of a child determined to be
21a marital child under s. 767.803 dies after his or her marriage and before the
22statement acknowledging paternity parentage has been signed, the state registrar
23shall insert the name of the father parent under subd. 1. upon receipt of a court order
24determining that the husband spouse was the father parent of the child.
SB70-AA10,254,11
13. Except as provided under par. (c), if the state registrar receives a statement
2acknowledging paternity parentage in the method prescribed by the state registrar
3and signed by both parents, neither of whom was under the age of 18 years when the
4form was signed, along with the fee under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall insert the
5name of the father parent under subd. 1. The state registrar shall mark the record
6to show that the acknowledgement is on file. The acknowledgement shall be
7available to the department of children and families or a county child support agency
8under s. 59.53 (5) pursuant to the program responsibilities under s. 49.22 or to any
9other person with a direct and tangible interest in the record. The state registrar
10shall include on the acknowledgment the information in s. 767.805 and the items in
11s. 767.813 (5g).
SB70-AA10,254,1612 4. (intro.) If a registrant has not reached the age of 18 years and if any of the
13following indicate, in a statement acknowledging paternity parentage under subd.
141. or 3., that the given name or surname, or both, of the registrant should be changed
15on the birth record, the state registrar shall enter the name indicated on the birth
16record without a court order:
SB70-AA10,254,1817 a. The mother of the parent who gave birth to the registrant, except as provided
18under subd. 4. b. and c.
SB70-AA10,254,2019 b. The father of natural parent who did not give birth to the registrant if the
20father
that parent has legal custody of the registrant.
SB70-AA10,522 21Section 522. 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. of the statutes is created to read:
SB70-AA10,255,322 69.15 (3) (b) 3m. Except as provided in par. (c), if the state registrar receives
23an acknowledgement of parentage on a form prescribed by the state registrar and
24signed by both of the people presumed to be natural parents under s. 891.41 (1) (b),
25a certified copy of the parents' marriage certificate, and the fee required under s.

169.22 (5) (b) 1., the state registrar shall insert the name of the spouse from the
2marriage certificate as a parent if the name of that parent was omitted on the original
3birth certificate.
SB70-AA10,523 4Section 523. 69.15 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,255,75 69.15 (3) (d) The method prescribed by the state registrar for acknowledging
6paternity parentage shall require that the social security number of each of the
7registrant's parents be provided.
SB70-AA10,524 8Section 524. 69.15 (3m) (title) and (a) (intro.) of the statutes are amended to
9read:
SB70-AA10,255,1310 69.15 (3m) (title) Rescission of statement acknowledging paternity
11parentage. (a) (intro.) A statement acknowledging paternity parentage that is filed
12with the state registrar under sub. (3) (b) 3. may be rescinded by either person who
13signed the statement as a parent of the registrant if all of the following apply:
SB70-AA10,525 14Section 525. 69.15 (3m) (a) 3. and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:
SB70-AA10,255,1915 69.15 (3m) (a) 3. The person rescinding the statement files a rescission in the
16method prescribed under subd. 2. before the day on which a court or circuit court
17commissioner makes an order in an action affecting the family involving the man
18person who signed the statement and the child who is the subject of the statement
19or before 60 days elapse after the statement was filed, whichever occurs first.
SB70-AA10,255,2320 (b) If the state registrar, within the time required under par. (a) 3., receives a
21rescission in the method prescribed by the state registrar, along with the proper fee
22under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall prepare under sub. (6) a new record omitting
23the father's parent's name if it was inserted under sub. (3) (b).
SB70-AA10,526 24Section 526. 71.03 (2) (d) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,255,2525 71.03 (2) (d) (title) Husband and wife Spouses joint filing.
SB70-AA10,527
1Section 527. 71.03 (2) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,256,42 71.03 (2) (d) 1. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3. and par. (e), a husband
3and a wife
spouses may file a joint return for income tax purposes even though one
4of the spouses has no gross income or no deductions.
SB70-AA10,528 5Section 528. 71.03 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,256,96 71.03 (2) (d) 2. No joint return may be filed if either the husband or wife spouse
7at any time during the taxable year is a nonresident alien, unless an election is in
8effect for the taxable year under section 6013 (g) or (h) of the internal revenue code
9Internal Revenue Code.
SB70-AA10,529 10Section 529. 71.03 (2) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,256,1711 71.03 (2) (d) 3. No joint return may be filed if the husband and wife spouses
12have different taxable years, except that if their taxable years begin on the same day
13and end on different days because of the death of either or both the joint return may
14be filed with respect to the taxable year of each unless the surviving spouse remarries
15before the close of his or her taxable year or unless the taxable year of either spouse
16is a fractional part of a year under section 443 (a) (1) of the internal revenue code
17Internal Revenue Code.
SB70-AA10,530 18Section 530. 71.03 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,257,819 71.03 (2) (g) Joint return following separate return. Except as provided in par.
20(i), if an individual has filed a separate return for a taxable year for which a joint
21return could have been filed by the individual and the individual's spouse under par.
22(d) or (e) and the time prescribed by law for timely filing the return for that taxable
23year has expired, the individual and the individual's spouse may file a joint return
24for that taxable year. A joint return filed by the husband and wife spouses under this
25paragraph is their return for that taxable year, and all payments, credits, refunds

1or other repayments made or allowed with respect to the separate return of each
2spouse for that taxable year shall be taken into account in determining the extent
3to which the tax based upon the joint return has been paid. If a joint return is filed
4under this paragraph, any election, other than the election to file a separate return,
5made by either spouse in that spouse's separate return for that taxable year with
6respect to the treatment of any income, deduction or credit of that spouse may not
7be changed in the filing of the joint return if that election would have been irrevocable
8if the joint return had not been filed.
SB70-AA10,531 9Section 531. 71.03 (2) (m) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,257,1310 71.03 (2) (m) 2. If a husband and wife spouses change from a joint return to
11separate returns within the time prescribed in subd. 1., the tax paid on the joint
12return shall be allocated between them in proportion to the tax liability shown on
13each separate return.
SB70-AA10,532 14Section 532. 71.03 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,257,2415 71.03 (4) (a) Natural persons whose total income is not in excess of $10,000 and
16consists entirely of wages subject to withholding for Wisconsin tax purposes and not
17more than $200 total of dividends, interest and other wages not subject to Wisconsin
18withholding, and who have elected the Wisconsin standard deduction and have not
19claimed either the credit for homestead property tax relief or deductions for expenses
20incurred in earning such income, shall, at their election, not be required to record on
21their income tax returns the amount of the tax imposed on their Wisconsin taxable
22income. Married persons shall be permitted this election only if the joint income of
23the husband and wife spouses does not exceed $10,000, if both report their incomes
24on the same joint income tax return form, and if both make this election.
SB70-AA10,533 25Section 533. 71.05 (22) (a) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,258,2
171.05 (22) (a) (title) Election of deductions; husband and wife spousal
2deductions.
SB70-AA10,534 3Section 534. 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,258,54 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to
5the claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
SB70-AA10,535 6Section 535. 71.07 (9e) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,258,107 71.07 (9e) (b) No credit may be allowed under this subsection to married
8persons, except married persons living apart who are treated as single under section
97703 (b) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code, if the husband and wife
10spouses report their income on separate income tax returns for the taxable year.
SB70-AA10,536 11Section 536. 71.09 (13) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,258,1912 71.09 (13) (a) 2. The tax shown on the return for the preceding year. If a
13husband and wife
spouses who filed separate returns for the preceding taxable year
14file a joint return, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the sum of
15the taxes shown on the separate returns of the husband and wife spouses. If a
16husband and wife
spouses who filed a joint return for the preceding taxable year file
17separate returns, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the husband's
18or wife's
each spouse's proportion of that tax based on what their respective tax
19liabilities for that year would have been had they filed separately.
SB70-AA10,537 20Section 537. 71.52 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,258,2221 71.52 (4) “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to the
22claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
SB70-AA10,538 23Section 538. 71.83 (1) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,259,524 71.83 (1) (a) 8. `Joint return replacing separate returns.' If the amount shown
25as the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2)

1(g) to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax upon the separate return
2of each spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to negligence or
3intentional disregard of this chapter, but without intent to defraud, at the time of the
4filing of that separate return, then 25 percent of the total amount of that excess shall
5be added to the tax.
SB70-AA10,539 6Section 539. 71.83 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,259,127 71.83 (1) (b) 5. `Joint return after separate returns.' If the amount shown as
8the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2) (g)
9to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax on the separate return of each
10spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to fraud with intent to evade tax
11at the time of the filing of that separate return, then 50 percent of the total amount
12of that excess shall be added to the tax.
SB70-AA10,540 13Section 540. 77.25 (8m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,259,1414 77.25 (8m) Between husband and wife spouses.
SB70-AA10,541 15Section 541. 77.54 (7) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,259,1916 77.54 (7) (b) 1. The item is transferred to a child, spouse, parent, father-in-law,
17mother-in-law
parent-in-law, daughter-in-law , or son-in-law of the transferor or,
18if the item is a motor vehicle, from the transferor to a corporation owned solely by the
19transferor or by the transferor's spouse.
SB70-AA10,542 20Section 542. 101.91 (5m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,260,221 101.91 (5m) “Manufactured home community" means any plot or plots of
22ground upon which 3 or more manufactured homes that are occupied for dwelling or
23sleeping purposes are located. “Manufactured home community" does not include a
24farm where the occupants of the manufactured homes are the father, mother, son,

1daughter, brother or sister
parents, children, or siblings of the farm owner or
2operator or where the occupants of the manufactured homes work on the farm.
SB70-AA10,543 3Section 543. 102.07 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,260,64 102.07 (5) (b) The parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, son-in-law,
5daughter-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law parent-in-law, brother-in-law, or
6sister-in-law of a farmer shall not be deemed the farmer's employees.
SB70-AA10,544 7Section 544. 102.07 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,260,148 102.07 (5) (c) A shareholder-employee of a family farm corporation shall be
9deemed a “farmer" for purposes of this chapter and shall not be deemed an employee
10of a farmer. A “family farm corporation" means a corporation engaged in farming all
11of whose shareholders are related as lineal ancestors or lineal descendants, whether
12by blood or by adoption, or as spouses, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins,
13sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law parents-in-law,
14brothers-in-law, or sisters-in-law of such lineal ancestors or lineal descendants.
SB70-AA10,545 15Section 545. 102.51 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-AA10,260,1716 102.51 (1) (a) 1. A wife married person upon a husband his or her spouse with
17whom he or she is living at the time of his the spouse's death.
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