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Senate panel debates letting courts order shared-bill payments and expanding protection orders to defendants under supervision
Summary
Committee members weighed adding a provision to allow courts to order defendants to continue paying household bills after a protection request and discussed expanding the ‘incarcerated’ trigger to include defendants under community supervision; advocates said the change responds to clinic reports of retaliatory financial withholding.
The Senate Judiciary committee examined changes to final protection orders that would expand the kinds of financial relief a court may grant and broaden the circumstances under which a court may issue a protection order.
Michelle House of the Office of Legislative Council presented the proposal, saying the statute currently allows the court, when it finds a duty to support, to order a defendant to pay a plaintiff's living expenses for a fixed period not to exceed three months. The proposed subsection (f) would let a court order the defendant to continue paying household bills that were the defendant's responsibility before the plaintiff filed the request for…
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