Bill > HB14

This bill aims to amend various sections of Ohio law to grant equal parental time and responsibilities for the care of a child. The key provisions are: - Establishes a policy to assure that children have frequent contact with both parents after legal separation, divorce, or when the mother is unmarried, and to encourage parents to share equally in parenting time and the rights and responsibilities of child rearing. - Requires the court to allocate parental rights and responsibilities in a manner that promotes the best interest of the child, and encourages parents to jointly submit a shared parenting agreement. - Establishes presumptions of equal decision-making rights/responsibilities and equal parenting time, which can only be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence that such an arrangement would be detrimental to the child. - Provides for temporary orders during the proceedings that also presume equal parenting time and decision-making, unless rebutted by clear and convincing evidence. - Allows modification of existing parental rights and responsibilities orders if the current arrangement is detrimental to the child. - Adds various procedural requirements, such as timelines for issuing final orders, notice requirements, and remedies for interference with parenting time. The bill aims to promote equal shared parenting as the default arrangement, with high bars for the court to deviate from an equal allocation of parental rights and responsibilities.