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SB70-SSA2-SA2,188,1223 71.03 (2) (g) Joint return following separate return. Except as provided in par.
24(i), if an individual has filed a separate return for a taxable year for which a joint
25return could have been filed by the individual and the individual's spouse under par.

1(d) or (e) and the time prescribed by law for timely filing the return for that taxable
2year has expired, the individual and the individual's spouse may file a joint return
3for that taxable year. A joint return filed by the husband and wife spouses under this
4paragraph is their return for that taxable year, and all payments, credits, refunds
5or other repayments made or allowed with respect to the separate return of each
6spouse for that taxable year shall be taken into account in determining the extent
7to which the tax based upon the joint return has been paid. If a joint return is filed
8under this paragraph, any election, other than the election to file a separate return,
9made by either spouse in that spouse's separate return for that taxable year with
10respect to the treatment of any income, deduction or credit of that spouse may not
11be changed in the filing of the joint return if that election would have been irrevocable
12if the joint return had not been filed.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,356 13Section 356. 71.03 (2) (m) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,188,1714 71.03 (2) (m) 2. If a husband and wife spouses change from a joint return to
15separate returns within the time prescribed in subd. 1., the tax paid on the joint
16return shall be allocated between them in proportion to the tax liability shown on
17each separate return.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,357 18Section 357. 71.03 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,189,319 71.03 (4) (a) Natural persons whose total income is not in excess of $10,000 and
20consists entirely of wages subject to withholding for Wisconsin tax purposes and not
21more than $200 total of dividends, interest and other wages not subject to Wisconsin
22withholding, and who have elected the Wisconsin standard deduction and have not
23claimed either the credit for homestead property tax relief or deductions for expenses
24incurred in earning such income, shall, at their election, not be required to record on
25their income tax returns the amount of the tax imposed on their Wisconsin taxable

1income. Married persons shall be permitted this election only if the joint income of
2the husband and wife spouses does not exceed $10,000, if both report their incomes
3on the same joint income tax return form, and if both make this election.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,358 4Section 358. 71.05 (22) (a) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,189,65 71.05 (22) (a) (title) Election of deductions; husband and wife spousal
6deductions.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,359 7Section 359. 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,189,98 71.07 (5m) (a) 3. “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to
9the claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,360 10Section 360. 71.07 (9e) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,189,1411 71.07 (9e) (b) No credit may be allowed under this subsection to married
12persons, except married persons living apart who are treated as single under section
137703 (b) of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code, if the husband and wife
14spouses report their income on separate income tax returns for the taxable year.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,361 15Section 361. 71.09 (13) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,189,2316 71.09 (13) (a) 2. The tax shown on the return for the preceding year. If a
17husband and wife
spouses who filed separate returns for the preceding taxable year
18file a joint return, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the sum of
19the taxes shown on the separate returns of the husband and wife spouses. If a
20husband and wife
spouses who filed a joint return for the preceding taxable year file
21separate returns, the tax shown on the return for the preceding year is the husband's
22or wife's
each spouse's proportion of that tax based on what their respective tax
23liabilities for that year would have been had they filed separately.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,362 24Section 362. 71.52 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,190,2
171.52 (4) “Household" means a claimant and an individual related to the
2claimant as husband or wife his or her spouse.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,363 3Section 363. 71.83 (1) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,190,104 71.83 (1) (a) 8. `Joint return replacing separate returns.' If the amount shown
5as the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2)
6(g) to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax upon the separate return
7of each spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to negligence or
8intentional disregard of this chapter, but without intent to defraud, at the time of the
9filing of that separate return, then 25 percent of the total amount of that excess shall
10be added to the tax.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,364 11Section 364. 71.83 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,190,1712 71.83 (1) (b) 5. `Joint return after separate returns.' If the amount shown as
13the tax by the husband and wife spouses on a joint return filed under s. 71.03 (2) (g)
14to (L) exceeds the sum of the amounts shown as the tax on the separate return of each
15spouse and if any part of that excess is attributable to fraud with intent to evade tax
16at the time of the filing of that separate return, then 50 percent of the total amount
17of that excess shall be added to the tax.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,365 18Section 365. 77.25 (8m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,190,1919 77.25 (8m) Between husband and wife spouses.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,366 20Section 366. 77.54 (7) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,190,2421 77.54 (7) (b) 1. The item is transferred to a child, spouse, parent, father-in-law,
22mother-in-law
parent-in-law, daughter-in-law , or son-in-law of the transferor or,
23if the item is a motor vehicle, from the transferor to a corporation owned solely by the
24transferor or by the transferor's spouse.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,367 25Section 367. 101.91 (5m) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1101.91 (5m) “Manufactured home community" means any plot or plots of
2ground upon which 3 or more manufactured homes that are occupied for dwelling or
3sleeping purposes are located. “Manufactured home community" does not include a
4farm where the occupants of the manufactured homes are the father, mother, son,
5daughter, brother or sister
parents, children, or siblings of the farm owner or
6operator or where the occupants of the manufactured homes work on the farm.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,368 7Section 368. 102.07 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,191,108 102.07 (5) (b) The parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, son-in-law,
9daughter-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law parent-in-law, brother-in-law, or
10sister-in-law of a farmer shall not be deemed the farmer's employees.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,369 11Section 369. 102.07 (5) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,191,1812 102.07 (5) (c) A shareholder-employee of a family farm corporation shall be
13deemed a “farmer" for purposes of this chapter and shall not be deemed an employee
14of a farmer. A “family farm corporation" means a corporation engaged in farming all
15of whose shareholders are related as lineal ancestors or lineal descendants, whether
16by blood or by adoption, or as spouses, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins,
17sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law parents-in-law,
18brothers-in-law, or sisters-in-law of such lineal ancestors or lineal descendants.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,370 19Section 370. 102.51 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,191,2120 102.51 (1) (a) 1. A wife married person upon a husband his or her spouse with
21whom he or she is living at the time of his the spouse's death.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,371 22Section 371. 102.51 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,372 23Section 372. 103.10 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,191,2524 103.10 (1) (h) “Spouse" means an employee's legal husband or wife the person
25to whom an employee is legally married
.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,373
1Section 373. 103.165 (3) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,192,32 103.165 (3) (a) 3. The decedent's father or mother parent or parents if the
3decedent leaves no surviving spouse, domestic partner under ch. 770, or children.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,374 4Section 374. 111.32 (12) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,192,65 111.32 (12) “Marital status" means the status of being married, single,
6divorced, separated, or widowed a surviving spouse.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,375 7Section 375. 115.76 (12) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,192,88 115.76 (12) (a) 1. A biological natural parent.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,376 9Section 376. 115.76 (12) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,377 10Section 377. 115.76 (12) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,378 11Section 378. 115.76 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,192,1812 115.76 (13) “Person acting as a parent of a child" means a relative of the child
13or a private individual allowed to act as a parent of a child by the child's biological
14natural or adoptive parents or guardian, and includes the child's grandparent,
15neighbor, friend or private individual caring for the child with the explicit or tacit
16approval of the child's biological natural or adoptive parents or guardian. “Person
17acting as a parent of a child" does not include any person that receives public funds
18to care for the child if such funds exceed the cost of such care.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,379 19Section 379. 146.34 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,192,2520 146.34 (1) (f) “Parent" means a biological natural parent, a husband who has
21consented to the artificial insemination of his wife under s. 891.40
or a parent by
22adoption. If the minor is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do
23not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803, “parent" includes a person adjudged
24in a judicial proceeding under ch. 48 to be the biological father of the minor. “Parent"
25does not include any person whose parental rights have been terminated.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,380
1Section 380. 157.05 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,193,8 2157.05 Autopsy. Consent for a licensed physician to conduct an autopsy on
3the body of a deceased person shall be deemed sufficient when given by whichever
4one of the following assumes custody of the body for purposes of burial: Father,
5mother, husband, wife
parent, spouse, child, guardian, next of kin, domestic partner
6under ch. 770, or in the absence of any of the foregoing, a friend, or a person charged
7by law with the responsibility for burial. If 2 or more such persons assume custody
8of the body, the consent of one of them shall be deemed sufficient.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,381 9Section 381. 182.004 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,193,1510 182.004 (6) Stock may be issued and leases made to husband and wife spouses,
11and to the survivor of them, in which event title shall descend the same as in like
12conveyances of real property subject to ch. 766. Otherwise, title to the stock and lease
13shall descend to the persons to whom a homestead of the stockholder would descend
14except as provided in ch. 766. The interest of a tenant in the lease and stock shall
15be exempt from execution to the same extent as a homestead in real estate.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,382 16Section 382. 250.04 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,193,2017 250.04 (3) (a) The department shall establish and maintain surveillance
18activities sufficient to detect any occurrence of acute, communicable , or chronic
19diseases and threat of occupational or environmental hazards, injuries , or changes
20in the health of mothers parents and children.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,383 21Section 383. 301.50 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,194,622 301.50 (1) In this section, “substantial parental relationship" means the
23acceptance and exercise of significant responsibility for the daily supervision,
24education, protection, and care of the child. In evaluating whether an individual has
25had a substantial parental relationship with the child, factors that may be

1considered include, but are not limited to, whether the individual has expressed
2concern for or interest in the support, care, or well-being of the child; whether the
3individual has neglected or refused to provide care or support for the child; and
4whether, with respect to an individual who is or may be the father a parent of the
5child, the individual has expressed concern for or interest in the support, care, or
6well-being of the mother during her parent who gave birth during pregnancy.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,384 7Section 384. 700.19 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,194,158 700.19 (2) Husband and wife Spouses. If persons named as owners in a
9document of title, transferees in an instrument of transfer, or buyers in a bill of sale
10are described in the document, instrument, or bill of sale as husband and wife
11married to each other, or are in fact husband and wife married to each other, they are
12joint tenants, unless the intent to create a tenancy in common is expressed in the
13document, instrument, or bill of sale. This subsection applies to property acquired
14before January 1, 1986, and, if ch. 766 does not apply when the property is acquired,
15to property acquired on or after January 1, 1986.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,385 16Section 385. 705.01 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,194,2217 705.01 (4) “Joint account" means an account, other than a marital account,
18payable on request to one or more of 2 or more parties whether or not mention is made
19of any right of survivorship. “Joint account" also means any account established with
20the right of survivorship on or after January 1, 1986, by 2 parties who claim to be
21husband and wife married to each other, which is payable on request to either or both
22of the parties.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,386 23Section 386. 705.01 (4m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,195,424 705.01 (4m) “Marital account" means an account established without the right
25of survivorship on or after January 1, 1986, by 2 parties who claim to be husband and

1wife
married to each other, which is payable on request to either or both of the parties
2and which is designated as a marital account. An account established by those
3parties with the right of survivorship under s. 766.58 (3) (f) or 766.60 is a joint
4account.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,387 5Section 387. 706.09 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,195,126 706.09 (1) (e) Marital interests. Homestead of the spouse of any transferor of
7an interest in real estate, if the recorded conveyance purporting to transfer the
8homestead states that the person executing it is single, unmarried , or widowed a
9surviving spouse
or fails to indicate the marital status of the transferor, and if the
10conveyance has, in either case, appeared of record for 5 years. This paragraph does
11not apply to the interest of a married person who is described of record as a holder
12in joint tenancy or of marital property with that transferor.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,388 13Section 388. 765.001 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,196,614 765.001 (2) Intent. It is the intent of chs. 765 to 768 to promote the stability
15and best interests of marriage and the family. It is the intent of the legislature to
16recognize the valuable contributions of both spouses during the marriage and at
17termination of the marriage by dissolution or death. Marriage is the institution that
18is the foundation of the family and of society. Its stability is basic to morality and
19civilization, and of vital interest to society and the state. The consequences of the
20marriage contract are more significant to society than those of other contracts, and
21the public interest must be taken into account always. The seriousness of marriage
22makes adequate premarital counseling and education for family living highly
23desirable and courses thereon are urged upon all persons contemplating marriage.
24The impairment or dissolution of the marriage relation generally results in injury
25to the public wholly apart from the effect upon the parties immediately concerned.

1Under the laws of this state, marriage is a legal relationship between 2 equal
2persons, a husband and wife, who owe to each other mutual responsibility and
3support. Each spouse has an equal obligation in accordance with his or her ability
4to contribute money or services or both which are necessary for the adequate support
5and maintenance of his or her minor children and of the other spouse. No spouse may
6be presumed primarily liable for support expenses under this subsection.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,389 7Section 389. 765.01 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,196,11 8765.01 A civil contract. Marriage, so far as its validity at law is concerned,
9is a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting
10is essential, and which creates the legal status of husband and wife spouse to each
11other
.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,390 12Section 390. 765.02 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,196,1413 765.02 (3) Marriage may be contracted between persons of the same sex or
14different sexes.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,391 15Section 391. 765.03 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,197,216 765.03 (1) No marriage shall be contracted while either of the parties has a
17husband or wife spouse living, nor between persons who are nearer of kin than 2nd
18cousins except that marriage may be contracted between first cousins where the
19female has attained the age of 55 years or where
if either party, at the time of
20application for a marriage license, submits an affidavit signed by a physician stating
21that either party is permanently sterile or that the 2 parties are otherwise
22permanently biologically incapable of producing a child together
. Relationship
23under this section shall be computed by the rule of the civil law, whether the parties
24to the marriage are of the half or of the whole blood. A marriage may not be

1contracted if either party has such want of understanding as renders him or her
2incapable of assenting to marriage.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,392 3Section 392. 765.16 (1m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,197,134 765.16 (1m) (intro.) Marriage may be validly solemnized and contracted in this
5state only after a marriage license has been issued therefor, and only by the mutual
6declarations of the 2 parties to be joined in marriage that they take each takes the
7other as husband and wife his or her spouse, made before an authorized officiating
8person and in the presence of at least 2 competent adult witnesses other than the
9officiating person. If one of the parties is serving on active duty in the U.S. armed
10forces or in forces incorporated in the U.S. armed forces, in a reserve unit of the U.S.
11armed forces, or in the national guard, the presence of only one competent adult
12witness other than the officiating person is required. The following are authorized
13to be officiating persons:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,393 14Section 393. 765.16 (1m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,197,1815 765.16 (1m) (c) The 2 parties themselves, by mutual declarations that they
16take
each takes the other as husband and wife his or her spouse, in accordance with
17the customs, rules, and regulations of any religious society, denomination, or sect to
18which either of the parties may belong.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,394 19Section 394. 765.23 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,198,8 20765.23 Immaterial irregularities otherwise. No marriage hereafter
21contracted shall be void either by reason of the marriage license having been issued
22by a county clerk not having jurisdiction to issue the same; or by reason of any
23informality or irregularity of form in the application for the marriage license or in
24the marriage license itself, or the incompetency of the witnesses to such marriage;
25or because the marriage may have been solemnized more than 60 days after the date

1of the marriage license, if the marriage is in other respects lawful and is
2consummated with the full belief on the part of the persons so married, or either of
3them, that they have been lawfully joined in marriage. Where a marriage has been
4celebrated in one of the forms provided for in s. 765.16 (1m), and the parties thereto
5have immediately thereafter assumed the habit and repute of husband and wife a
6married couple
, and having continued the same uninterruptedly thereafter for the
7period of one year, or until the death of either of them, it shall be deemed that a
8marriage license has been issued as required by ss. 765.05 to 765.24 and 767.803.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,395 9Section 395. 765.24 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,198,23 10765.24 Removal of impediments to subsequent marriage. If a person
11during the lifetime of a husband or wife spouse with whom the marriage is in force,
12enters into a subsequent marriage contract in accordance with s. 765.16, and the
13parties thereto live together thereafter as husband and wife a married couple, and
14such subsequent marriage contract was entered into by one of the parties in good
15faith, in the full belief that the former husband or wife spouse was dead, or that the
16former marriage had been annulled, or dissolved by a divorce, or without knowledge
17of such former marriage, they the parties shall, after the impediment to their
18marriage has been removed by the death or divorce of the other party to such former
19marriage, if they continue to live together as husband and wife a married couple in
20good faith on the part of one of them, be held to have been legally married from and
21after the removal of such impediment and the issue of any children born during such
22subsequent marriage shall be considered as the marital issue children of both
23parents parties.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,396 24Section 396. 765.30 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1765.30 (3) (a) Penalty for unlawful solemnization of marriage. Any officiating
2person who solemnizes a marriage unless the contracting parties have first obtained
3a proper marriage license as heretofore provided; or unless the parties to such
4marriage declare that they take each takes the other as husband and wife his or her
5spouse
; or without the presence of competent adult witnesses as required under s.
6765.16 (1m); or solemnizes a marriage knowing of any legal impediment thereto; or
7solemnizes a marriage more than 60 days after the date of the marriage license; or
8falsely certifies to the date of a marriage solemnized by the officiating person.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,397 9Section 397. 766.587 (7) (form) 9. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB70-SSA2-SA2,199,1410 766.587 (7) (form) 9. BOTH SPOUSES MUST SIGN THIS AGREEMENT. IF
11SIGNED BEFORE JANUARY 1, 1986, IT IS EFFECTIVE ON JANUARY 1, 1986,
12OR THE DATE THE PARTIES MARRY, WHICHEVER IS LATER. IF SIGNED ON
13OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 1986, IT IS EFFECTIVE ON THE DATE SIGNED OR THE
14DATE THE PARTIES MARRY, WHICHEVER IS LATER.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,199,1615 STATUTORY INDIVIDUAL
16 PROPERTY CLASSIFICATION AGREEMENT
SB70-SSA2-SA2,199,1717 (Pursuant to Section 766.587, Wisconsin Statutes)
SB70-SSA2-SA2,199,1918 This agreement is made and entered into by .... and ...., (husband and wife who
19are married
) (who intend to marry) (strike one).
SB70-SSA2-SA2,199,2320 The parties to this agreement agree to classify all their property, including
21property owned by them now and property acquired before January 1, 1987, as the
22individual property of the owning spouse, and agree that ownership of their property
23shall be determined as if it were December 31, 1985.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,199,2424 This agreement terminates on January 1, 1987.
SB70-SSA2-SA2,199,2525 Signature .... Date ....
SB70-SSA2-SA2,200,1
1Print Name Here: ....
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