What SB174 Does
1. SB174 will give full discretion to judges over not only those who are involved with divorce or custody issues but the intact families of Ohio as well.
2. SB174 will mean that Ohio no longer follows FERPA. (Federal Education Rights of the Parent Act)
3. SB174 will mean that a filing to withdraw Ohio from the UCJEEA Compact will be required.
4. SB174 will mean that schools will not get their property taxes under this bill. Those are based on the residence of the parent.
5. SB174 will mean that those in need will not get their welfare benefits. Qualifications for these benefits are based on residence.
6. SB174 will mean that a judge can terminate a parent’s rights because the parent filed to legally end their relationship.
7. SB174 will mean that a judge can terminate a parent’s rights based on discretion.
8. SB174, by the use of “designated” instead of the current “residential,” will increase conflict, designated is more authoritative and indicates that one parent has more power than the other. This will increase litigation.
9. SB174 will mean that a parent is expected to write a “parenting plan” that covers all levels of “development,” when all children develop at a different rate. Plans to do this will be 100s of pages long and have to be adjusted continually.
10. SB174 will mean that the sponsors will see an increase in business for their law firms will get with the passage. This is a conflict of interest that should be publicly revealed and explained.
11. SB174 will mean that with every other state using “residential parent”, the use of “designated” parent will affect cases where there are parents in two states and one resides in Ohio.
12. The 2005 Task Force Report is 20 years old and out of date. It does not make the recommendations that are included in this bill.
13. SB174 will mean that a never-married father will not be allowed to file for custody of their children in Ohio. That clause alone thumbs its nose at years of fundamental rights case law and makes this bill unconstitutional on its face.
14. SB174 will mean that judges will have the discretion to order a minor to go through transgender modification even if the parents or the child do not want it.
15. SB174 will mean that judges will have the discretion to order to determine how every child in the state is educated. That does include intact families.
16. SB174 will mean that judges will have the discretion to order what religious education a child receives. That does include intact families.
17. SB174 will mean that “shared parenting”, part of Ohio law since the 1980s, will no longer exist.
18. SB174 will mean providing specific rights to deployed and active-duty military, and this sets them back to less than what was done with the original bill. BTW – The original bill was done because a divorced judge would not allow his new family to see the father’s children from his marriage to her when he was deployed.
19. SB174 will mean that total strangers are to be able to file for custody of any minor child.
20. SB174 doesn’t address the bias of GALs.
21. SB174 doesn’t address the bias of judges. They have admitted it exists in testimony on other bills.
22. SB174 sponsors did not read their own bill before introducing it so they could understand the cause and effect of what it does.
23. SB174 sponsors have not considered the extreme increase in costs that will be incurred by the state, counties, and the families involved. LSC does not consider all costs to them in their analysis, only what changes are made by the bill.
Legislative Director
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