Florida House Bill 549 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Revises factors for alimony; requires certain written findings; revises provisions relating to protection of awards; revises provisions for durational alimony; redesignates permanent alimony as long-term alimony & revises provisions relating to award; requires written findings regarding incomes & standard of living of parties after dissolution; provides that increase in obligor's income may not be considered permanent in nature until it has been maintained for specified period; provides attorney fees & costs if obligee unnecessarily or unreasonably litigates petition for modification or termination of award; revises provisions relating to effect of supportive relationship; prohibits court from reserving jurisdiction to reinstate alimony; provides that income & assets of obligor's spouse or person with whom obligor resides may not be considered in redetermination in modification action; provides that if court orders alimony concurrent with child support, alimony may not be modified due to later modification or termination of child support; provides that attaining retirement age is substantial change; provides factors in determining whether obligor's retirement is reasonable; requires court to impute income to obligee based on specified analysis & factors; allows separate adjudication of issues in certain circumstances.

Dissolution of Marriage

House Civil Justice Subcommittee	Rep. Matt Gaetz [R]	Sen. Ed Hooper [R]	House Judiciary Committee
Rep. Ritch Workman [R]

2012-02-23 - House - House: Third Reading RCS#868 (Y: 83 N: 30 NV: 7 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Judiciary
2012-03-05		Referred to Judiciary; Budget; Rules -SJ 844
2012-03-05		Received -SJ 844
2012-02-24		In Messages
2012-02-23		CS passed as amended; YEAS 83 NAYS 30 -HJ 774
2012-02-23		Read 3rd time -HJ 774
2012-02-22		Placed on 3rd reading
2012-02-22		Read 2nd time -HJ 724
2012-02-20		Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/22/12
2012-02-20		Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.19(c)
2012-02-16		CS/CS by- Judiciary Committee; YEAS 17 NAYS 1 -HJ 685
2012-02-14		On Committee agenda-- Judiciary Committee, 02/16/12, 11:30 am, 404 HOB
2012-01-10		CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee read 1st time -HJ 168
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 56
2012-01-04		Now in Judiciary Committee -HJ 170
2011-12-29		Pending review of CS under Rule 7.19(c)
2011-12-07		CS by Civil Justice Subcommittee; YEAS 10 NAYS 2 -HJ 178
2011-11-30		PCS on Committee agenda-- Civil Justice Subcommittee, 12/07/11, 1:00 pm, 404 HOB
2011-11-15		Referred to Civil Justice Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee -HJ 56
2011-11-02		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
61	071		Amended Code	See Bill Text
61	08		Amended Code	See Bill Text
61	14		Amended Code	See Bill Text
61	19		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/549
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0549/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0549/BillText/c1/PDF
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0549/BillText/c2/PDF
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0549/BillText/e1/PDF
Roll Call	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/549/Vote/HouseVote_h0549e1868.PDF