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House approves task force to study causes and costs of divorce after extended floor debate

Utah House of Representatives (floor session) · February 17, 2005
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Summary

First substitute House Bill 56 establishes an interim task force to study the causes, costs and possible legal/process changes related to divorce in Utah; sponsor Representative Peggy Wallace emphasized child welfare and fiscal costs; the House passed the measure 62-12.

The Utah House approved first substitute House Bill 56, creating a task force to study the causes of divorce, explore track systems and waiting periods, review fiscal impacts on the courts, and make recommendations to the judiciary. Representative Peggy Wallace, the bill sponsor, argued the state bears significant fiscal and social costs from divorce and that an interim study is…

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