Bill Text: NJ A2388 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits the use of electronic communication in child custody arrangements that include parenting time.*
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-25 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee [A2388 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2388-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
Permits the use of electronic communication in child custody arrangements that include visitation.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning visitation of a minor child and supplementing chapter 2 of Title 9 of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. A court-ordered custody arrangement which includes visitation provisions may include provision for the use of electronic communication.
As used in this act, "visitation" means in-person time spent between the child's parent with whom the child does not reside and the child. In appropriate circumstances, it may include electronic communication under conditions and at times determined by the court. The term "electronic communication" means time that a parent spends with his or her child during which the child is not in the parent's actual physical custody, but which is facilitated by the use of communication tools such as the telephone, electronic mail, instant messaging, video conferencing or other wired or wireless technologies via the Internet, or another medium of communication.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill establishes that court-ordered custody arrangements which include visitation provisions may include provision for the use of electronic communication. As used in the bill, the term "visitation" means in-person time spent between the child's parent with whom the child does not reside and the child. In appropriate circumstances, visitation may include electronic communication under conditions and at times determined by the court.
Under the bill, the term "electronic communication" means time that a parent spends with his or her child during which the child is not in the parent's actual physical custody, but which is facilitated by the use of communication tools such as the telephone, electronic mail, instant messaging, video conferencing or other wired or wireless technologies via the Internet, or another medium of communication.
This bill is based upon a 2009 Illinois visitation enactment, P.L. 096-0331.
