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House committee sends bill to let judges weigh prior child-abuse convictions in custody cases
Summary
The House Judiciary and Rules Committee voted unanimously to send House Bill 463 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. The bill would clarify that a judge may consider a parent’s conviction for sexual abuse of any child — not only the child in the custody dispute — when determining custody or parental access.
BOISE — The House Judiciary and Rules Committee voted unanimously to send House Bill 463 to the House floor with a “do pass” recommendation after sponsors said the measure would allow judges to consider prior convictions for sexual abuse of any child when making custody decisions.
Representative Barbara Ehart, R., District 33, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee that current law can exclude consideration of convictions involving other children. “There are enough flaws in the law,” Ehart said, and the bill would close one of those gaps by clarifying that a prior conviction for sexual abuse of any child may be considered when addressing custody and access.
Representative Heather Scott, R., District 2, a co-sponsor, said the bill does not mandate…
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