AB314: Bill Text

AB314,138,13 767.893 (1m) Judgment when mother parent fails to appear. Notwithstanding sub. (1), a court may enter an order adjudicating the alleged father parent, or male person alleging that he is the father to be the parent, to be the father parent of the child under s. 767.89 if the mother of person who gave birth to the child fails to appear at the first appearance, scheduled genetic test, pretrial hearing, or trial if sufficient evidence exists to establish the male person as the father parent of the child.

AB314,138,15 (2) (b) 1. Only one of those persons fails to appear and all of the other male respondents have been excluded as the father parent.

AB314,138,19 2. The alleged father parent who fails to appear has had genetic tests under s. 49.225 or 767.84 showing that the alleged father parent is not excluded and that the statistical probability of the alleged father’s parent’s parentage is 99.0 percent or higher.

AB314,139,4 (2m) (a) At any time after service of the summons and petition, a respondent who is the alleged father parent may, with or without appearance in court and subject to the approval of the court, in writing acknowledge that he the alleged parent has read and understands the notice under s. 767.813 (5g) and stipulate that he is to being the father parent of the child and for child support payments, legal custody, and physical placement. The court may not approve a stipulation for child support unless it provides for payment of child support determined in a manner consistent with s. 767.511 or 767.89.

AB314,290 Section 290. 767.895 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,139,11 767.895 Motion to reopen judgment based on statement acknowledging paternity parentage. (intro.) A judgment which adjudicates a person to be the father parent of a child and which was based upon a statement acknowledging paternity parentage that was signed and filed before April 1, 1998, may, if no trial was conducted, be reopened under any of the following circumstances:

AB314,291 Section 291. 769.201 (1m) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,139,16 769.201 (1m) (g) The individual asserted parentage of a child in a declaration of paternal parental interest filed with the department of children and families under s. 48.025 or in a statement acknowledging paternity parentage filed with the state registrar under s. 69.15 (3) (b) 1. or 3.

AB314,292 Section 292. 769.316 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,140,2 769.316 (4) Copies of bills for testing for parentage of a child, or for prenatal and postnatal health care of the mother person who gave birth and the child, or copies of reports of medical assistance payments under subch. IV of ch. 49 for such testing or prenatal and postnatal health care, furnished to the adverse party at least 10 days before trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed or the amount of the medical assistance paid and that the charges or payments were reasonable, necessary, and customary.

AB314,293 Section 293. 769.316 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,140,6 769.316 (9) The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife between spouses or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter.

AB314,294 Section 294. 769.401 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,140,8 769.401 (2) (a) A parent or presumed father parent of the child.

AB314,295 Section 295. 769.401 (2) (g) of the statutes is repealed.

AB314,296 Section 296. 770.07 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,140,19 770.07 (2) If sub. (1) and s. 770.05 are complied with, the county clerk shall issue a declaration of domestic partnership. With each declaration of domestic partnership the county clerk shall provide information describing the causes and effects of fetal alcohol syndrome and the dangers to a fetus from the mother’s use of cocaine or other drugs by the pregnant person during pregnancy. After the application for the declaration of domestic partnership is filed, the clerk shall, upon the sworn statement of either of the applicants, correct any erroneous, false, or insufficient statement in the application that comes to the clerk’s attention and shall notify the other applicant of the correction, as soon as reasonably possible.

AB314,297 Section 297. 786.36 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,141,2 786.36 (1) (c) The minor’s mother the person who gave birth to the minor, if the minor is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803 and if paternity parentage of the minor has not been established.

AB314,298 Section 298. 808.075 (4) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,141,5 808.075 (4) (a) 4. Hearing for child held in custody under s. 48.21 or an adult expectant mother parent of an unborn child held in custody under s. 48.213.

AB314,299 Section 299. 815.20 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,141,20 815.20 (1) An exempt homestead as defined in s. 990.01 (14) selected by a resident owner and occupied by him or her shall be exempt from execution, from the lien of every judgment, and from liability for the debts of the owner to the amount of $75,000, except mortgages, laborers’, mechanics’, and purchase money liens, and taxes, and except as otherwise provided. The exemption shall not be impaired by temporary removal with the intention to reoccupy the premises as a homestead nor by the sale of the homestead, but shall extend to the proceeds derived from the sale to an amount not exceeding $75,000, while held, with the intention to procure another homestead with the proceeds, for 2 years. The exemption extends to land owned by husband and wife spouses jointly or in common or as marital property, and each spouse may claim a homestead exemption of not more than $75,000. The exemption extends to the interest therein of tenants in common, having a homestead thereon with the consent of the cotenants, and to any estate less than a fee.

AB314,300 Section 300. 822.40 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,142,2 822.40 (4) A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses and a defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife between spouses or parent and child may not be invoked in a proceeding under this subchapter.

AB314,301 Section 301. 851.30 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,142,8 851.30 (2) (a) An individual who obtains or consents to a final decree or judgment of divorce from the decedent or an annulment of their marriage, if the decree or judgment is not recognized as valid in this state, unless they subsequently participate in a marriage ceremony purporting to marry each other or they subsequently hold themselves out as husband and wife married to each other.

AB314,302 Section 302. 852.01 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,142,12 852.01 (1) (d) If there is no surviving spouse, surviving domestic partner, issue, or parent, to the brothers and sisters siblings and the issue of any deceased brother or sister sibling per stirpes.

AB314,303 Section 303. 852.01 (1) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,142,17 852.01 (1) (f) 1. One-half to the maternal grandparents on one side equally if both survive, or to the surviving maternal grandparent on that side; if both maternal grandparents on that side are deceased, to the issue of the maternal grandparents on that side or either of them, per stirpes.

AB314,304 Section 304. 852.01 (1) (f) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,142,20 852.01 (1) (f) 2. One-half to the paternal relations on the other side in the same manner as to the maternal relations under subd. 1.

AB314,305 Section 305. 852.01 (1) (f) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,143,2 852.01 (1) (f) 3. If either the maternal side or the paternal side has no surviving grandparent or issue of a grandparent, the entire estate to the decedent’s relatives on the other side.

AB314,306 Section 306. 852.05 (1) and (2) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB314,143,8 852.05 (1) A child born to unmarried parents, or the child’s issue, is treated in the same manner as a child, or the issue of a child, born to married parents with respect to intestate succession from and through the child’s mother person who gave birth to the child, and from and through the child’s father other parent if any of the following applies to the person alleged to be the other parent of the child:

AB314,143,11 (a) The father person has been adjudicated to be the father a parent of the child in a paternity parentage proceeding under ch. 767 or by final order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction in another state.

AB314,143,13 (b) The father person has admitted in open court that he is the father to being the parent of the child.

AB314,143,15 (c) The father person has acknowledged himself to be the father parentage in writing signed by him the person.

AB314,143,22 (2) Property of a child born to unmarried parents passes in accordance with s. 852.01 except that the father or the father’s kindred a parent who did not give birth to the child, or the kindred of such a parent, can inherit only if the father the parent has been adjudicated to be the father parent of the child in a paternity parentage proceeding under ch. 767 or by final order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction in another state or has been determined to be the father parent under s. 767.804 or 767.805 or a substantially similar law of another state.

AB314,307 Section 307. 854.03 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,144,7 854.03 (3) Marital property. Except as provided in subs. (4) and (5), if a husband and wife 2 spouses die leaving marital property and it is not established that one survived the other by at least 120 hours, 50 percent of the marital property shall be distributed as if it were the husband’s the first spouse’s individual property and the husband 2nd spouse had survived, and 50 percent of the marital property shall be distributed as if it were the wife’s 2nd spouse’s individual property and the wife first spouse had survived.

AB314,308 Section 308. 891.39 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,144,10 891.39 (title) Presumption as to whether a child is marital or nonmarital; self-crimination self-incrimination; birth certificates.

AB314,309 Section 309. 891.39 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,145,3 891.39 (1) (a) Whenever it is established in an action or proceeding that a child was born to a woman person while he or she was the lawful wife of legally married to a specified man person, any party asserting in such action or proceeding that the husband was spouse is not the father parent of the child shall have the burden of proving that assertion by a clear and satisfactory preponderance of the evidence. In all such actions or proceedings the husband and the wife spouses are competent to testify as witnesses to the facts. The court or judge in such cases shall appoint a guardian ad litem to appear for and represent the child whose paternity parentage is questioned. Results of a genetic test, as defined in s. 767.001 (1m), showing that a man person other than the husband spouse of the person who gave birth to the child is not excluded as the father parent of the child and that the statistical probability of the man’s person’s parentage is 99.0 percent or higher constitute a clear and satisfactory preponderance of the evidence of the assertion under this paragraph, even if the husband spouse of the person who gave birth to the child is unavailable to submit to genetic tests, as defined in s. 767.001 (1m).

AB314,310 Section 310. 891.39 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,145,11 891.39 (2) (a) The mother of person who gave birth to the child shall not be excused or privileged from testifying fully in any action or proceeding mentioned in sub. (1) in which the determination of whether the child is a marital or nonmarital child is involved or in issue, when ordered to testify by a court of record or any judge thereof; but she the person who gave birth to the child shall not be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of testifying or producing evidence, except for perjury committed in giving the testimony.

AB314,311 Section 311. 891.39 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,145,19 891.39 (3) If any court under this section adjudges a child to be a nonmarital child, the clerk of court shall report the facts to the state registrar, who shall issue a new birth record showing the correct facts as found by the court, and shall dispose of the original, with the court’s report attached under s. 69.15 (3). If the husband spouse of the person who gave birth to the child is a party to the action and the court makes a finding as to whether or not the husband spouse is the father parent of the child, such finding shall be conclusive in all other courts of this state.

AB314,312 Section 312. 891.395 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,146,8 891.395 Presumption as to time of conception. In any paternity parentage proceeding, in the absence of a valid birth certificate indicating the birth weight, the mother person who gave birth to the child shall be competent to testify as to the birth weight of the child whose paternity parentage is at issue, and where the child whose paternity parentage is at issue weighed 5 1/2 pounds or more at the time of its birth, the testimony of the mother person who gave birth to the child as to the weight shall be presumptive evidence that the child was a full term child, unless competent evidence to the contrary is presented to the court. The conception of the child shall be presumed to have occurred within a span of time extending from 240 days to 300 days before the date of its birth, unless competent evidence to the contrary is presented to the court.

AB314,313 Section 313. 891.40 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,147,3 891.40 Artificial insemination. (1) If, A person is the natural parent of a child conceived by artificial insemination if the artificial insemination is performed under the supervision of a licensed physician and with the consent of her husband, a wife is inseminated artificially with semen donated by a man not her husband, the husband of the mother at the time of the conception of the child shall be the natural father of a child conceived. The husband’s consent must be in writing and signed by him and his wife if the person who receives the artificial insemination and the spouse of that person consent to the artificial insemination in a written document signed by both parties. The physician performing the artificial insemination shall certify their both parties’ signatures and the date of the insemination, and shall file the husband’s consent form with the department of health services, where it shall be kept confidential and in a sealed file except as provided in s. 46.03 (7) (bm). However, the physician’s failure to file the consent form does not affect the legal status of father parent and child. All papers and records pertaining to the insemination, whether part of the permanent record of a court or of a file held by the supervising physician or elsewhere, may be inspected only upon an order of the court for good cause shown.

AB314,147,7 (2) The donor of semen provided to a licensed physician for use in artificial insemination of a woman person other than the donor’s wife spouse is not the natural father parent of a child conceived, bears no liability for the support of the child and has no parental rights with regard to the child.

AB314,314 Section 314. 891.405 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,147,13 891.405 Presumption of paternity parentage based on acknowledgment. A man person is presumed to be the natural father parent of a child if he the person and the mother person who gave birth to the child have acknowledged paternity parentage under s. 69.15 (3) (b) 1. or 3. and no other man person is presumed to be the father natural parent under s. 891.41 (1).

AB314,315 Section 315. 891.407 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,147,19 891.407 Presumption of paternity parentage based on genetic test results. A man person is presumed to be the natural father parent of a child if the man person has been conclusively determined from genetic test results to be the father parent under s. 767.804 and no other man is presumed to be the father person is presumed to be a parent of the child under s. 891.405 or 891.41 (1).

AB314,316 Section 316. 891.41 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,147,22 891.41 (title) Presumption of paternity parentage based on marriage of the parties.

AB314,317 Section 317. 891.41 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,148,2 891.41 (1) (intro.) A man person is presumed to be the natural father parent of a child if any of the following applies:

AB314,318 Section 318. 891.41 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,148,7 891.41 (1) (a) He The person and the child’s natural mother person who gave birth to the child are or have been married to each other and the child is conceived or born after marriage and before the granting of a decree of legal separation, annulment, or divorce between the parties.

AB314,319 Section 319. 891.41 (1) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 891.41 (1) (b) (intro.) and amended to read:

AB314,148,14 891.41 (1) (b) (intro.) He The person and the child’s natural mother person who gave birth to the child were married to each other after the child was born but he the person and the child’s natural mother person who gave birth to the child had a relationship with one another during the period of time within which the child was conceived and no other man all of the following apply:

AB314,148,15 1. No person has been adjudicated to be the father or other parent.

AB314,148,17 2. No other person is presumed to be the father parent of the child under par. (a).

AB314,320 Section 320. 891.41 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,149,2 891.41 (2) In a legal action or proceeding, a presumption under sub. (1) is rebutted by results of a genetic test, as defined in s. 767.001 (1m), that show that a man person other than the man person presumed to be the father natural parent under sub. (1) is not excluded as the father parent of the child and that the statistical probability of the man’s person’s parentage is 99.0 percent or higher, even if the man person presumed to be the father natural parent under sub. (1) is unavailable to submit to genetic tests, as defined in s. 767.001 (1m).

AB314,321 Section 321. 891.41 (3) of the statutes is created to read:

AB314,149,5 891.41 (3) This section applies with respect to children born before, on, or after the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date].

AB314,322 Section 322. 905.04 (4) (e) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,149,14 905.04 (4) (e) 3. There is no privilege in situations where the examination of the expectant mother of person pregnant with an abused unborn child creates a reasonable ground for an opinion of the physician, registered nurse, chiropractor, psychologist, social worker, marriage and family therapist or professional counselor that the physical injury inflicted on the unborn child was caused by the habitual lack of self-control of the expectant mother of person pregnant with the unborn child in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance analogs, exhibited to a severe degree.

AB314,323 Section 323. 905.05 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,149,16 905.05 (title) Husband-wife Spousal and domestic partner privilege.

AB314,324 Section 324. 938.02 (5s) of the statutes is created to read:

AB314,149,18 938.02 (5s) “Expectant parent” means a person who is pregnant.

AB314,325 Section 325. 938.02 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,150,16 938.02 (13) “Parent” means a biological natural parent, a husband who has consented to the artificial insemination of his wife under s. 891.40, or a parent by adoption. If the juvenile is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803, “parent” includes a person conclusively determined from genetic test results to be the father parent under s. 767.804 or a person acknowledged under s. 767.805 or a substantially similar law of another state or adjudicated to be the biological father natural parent. “Parent” does not include any person whose parental rights have been terminated. For purposes of the application of s. 938.028 and the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 USC 1901 to 1963, “parent” means a biological natural parent of an Indian child, an Indian husband spouse who has consented to the artificial insemination of his wife or her spouse under s. 891.40, or an Indian person who has lawfully adopted an Indian juvenile, including an adoption under tribal law or custom, and includes, in the case of a nonmarital Indian child who is not adopted or whose parents do not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803, a person conclusively determined from genetic test results to be the father parent under s. 767.804, a person acknowledged under s. 767.805, a substantially similar law of another state, or tribal law or custom to be the biological father natural parent, or a person adjudicated to be the biological father natural parent, but does not include any person whose parental rights have been terminated.

AB314,326 Section 326. 938.27 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,150,22 938.27 (3) (b) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., if the petition that was filed relates to facts concerning a situation under s. 938.13 and if the juvenile is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do not subsequently intermarry as provided under s. 767.803 and if paternity parentage has not been established, the court shall notify, under s. 938.273, all of the following persons:

AB314,151,2 a. A person who has filed a declaration of paternal parental interest under s. 48.025.

AB314,151,5 b. A person alleged to the court to be the father parent of the juvenile or who may, based on the statements of the mother person who gave birth to the child or other information presented to the court, be the father parent of the juvenile.

AB314,151,10 2. A court is not required to provide notice, under subd. 1., to any person who may be the father parent of a juvenile conceived as a result of a sexual assault if a physician attests to his or her belief that there was a sexual assault of the juvenile’s mother person who gave birth to the juvenile that may have resulted in the juvenile’s conception.

AB314,327 Section 327. 938.27 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB314,151,19 938.27 (5) Notice to biological fathers parents. Subject to sub. (3) (b), the court shall make reasonable efforts to identify and notify any person who has filed a declaration of paternal parental interest under s. 48.025, any person conclusively determined from genetic test results to be the father parent under s. 767.804 (1), any person who has acknowledged paternity parentage of the child under s. 767.805 (1), and any person who has been adjudged to be the father parent of the juvenile in a judicial proceeding unless the person’s parental rights have been terminated.