2016 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 142
BY SENATOR CARTER
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make recommendations
regarding the feasibility of revisions to present laws to require physical custody of
children to be shared equally.
WHEREAS, present laws in Louisiana provide relative to a joint custody decree and
implementation order in child custody cases relative to joint custody of children; and
WHEREAS, the implementation order allocates the time periods during which each
parent shall have physical custody of the child so that the child is assured of frequent and
continuing contact with both parents; and
WHEREAS, present laws provide that to the extent feasible and considering the best
interest of the child, physical custody of children should be shared equally; and
WHEREAS, in a child custody proceeding in which joint custody is decreed,
physical custody of the children should be required to be shared equally, unless it is not in
the best interest of the child.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request the Louisiana State Law Institute to study and make
recommendations regarding the feasibility of revisions to present laws to require physical
custody of children to be shared equally.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Louisiana State Law Institute shall submit
a written report of its findings, together with any recommendations in the form of proposed
legislation, to the Legislature of Louisiana no later than February 1, 2017.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
Director of the Louisiana State Law Institute.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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