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2023 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 25 - Marital and Domestic Relations
Chapter 1 - MARRIAGE
Article 1 - Capacity of Persons to Marry
Article 2 - Validity of Marriage
Article 3 - Marriage License, Ceremony and Record
Article 1 - Arizona Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
Article 2 - Property Rights and Contract Powers
Article 1 - Annulment Chapter 3 - DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
Article 2 - Dissolution of Marriage
Article 4 - Alienation of Affections Chapter 3 - DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
Article 5 - Domestic Relations Education on Children's Issues
Article 7 - Court of Conciliation
Article 1 - Legal Decision-Making and Parenting Time
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 2 - Child Medical Support
Article 3 - Spousal Maintenance Enforcement
Article 5 - Child Support Arrest Warrants
Article 1 - Maternity and Paternity Proceedings
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 2 - Jurisdiction
Article 3 - Enforcement
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 2 - Jurisdiction
Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application
Article 4 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage Chapter 9 - UNIFORM INTERESTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration
Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order
Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention
Article 8 - Interstate Rendition Chapter 10 - LEGITIMACY OF CHILDREN
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 11 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS PROCEEDINGS
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 1 - Capacity of Persons to Marry
- § 25-101 - Void and prohibited marriages
- § 25-102 - Consent required for marriage of minors
- § 25-103 - Purposes of title; application of title
Article 2 - Validity of Marriage
- § 25-111 - Requirement of license and solemnization; covenant marriages
- § 25-112 - Marriages contracted in another state; validity and effect
Article 3 - Marriage License, Ceremony and Record
- § 25-121 - Marriage license; application; affidavit
- § 25-123 - Recording licenses; endorsement of solemnization; recording return; lost licenses
- § 25-124 - Persons authorized to perform marriage ceremony; definition
- § 25-125 - Marriage ceremony; official; witnesses; marriage license; covenant marriages
- § 25-126 - Application to justice of the peace for marriage and covenant marriage licenses; issuance; violation; classification
- § 25-127 - Issuance of marriage license by a city or town; transfer of fees; handling fee
- § 25-128 - Unlawful acts of person authorized to solemnize marriages; classification
- § 25-129 - Unlawful acts of person authorized to issue marriage license or make marriage records; classification
- § 25-130 - Abstract of marriage in lieu of reproducing marriage license
Article 1 - Arizona Uniform Premarital Agreement Act
- § 25-201 - Definitions
- § 25-202 - Enforcement of premarital agreements; exception
- § 25-203 - Scope of agreement
- § 25-204 - Amendment or revocation of agreement
- § 25-205 - Limitation of actions
Article 2 - Property Rights and Contract Powers
- § 25-211 - Property acquired during marriage as community property; exceptions; effect of service of a petition
- § 25-213 - Separate property
- § 25-214 - Management and control
- § 25-215 - Liability of community property and separate property for community and separate debts
- § 25-217 - Ownership of property acquired after moving into state
- § 25-218 - Surrogate parentage contracts; prohibition; custody; definition
Article 1 - Annulment Chapter 3 - DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
Article 2 - Dissolution of Marriage
- § 25-311 - Jurisdiction; filing of petition
- § 25-312 - Dissolution of marriage; findings necessary
- § 25-313 - Decree of legal separation; findings necessary; termination of decree
- § 25-314 - Pleadings; contents; defense; joinder of parties; confidentiality
- § 25-314.01 - Summary consent petition and decree
- § 25-315 - Preliminary injunction; effect
- § 25-316 - Temporary orders; definition
- § 25-317 - Separation agreement; effect
- § 25-318 - Disposition of property; retroactivity; notice to creditors; assignment of debts; contempt of court
- § 25-318.01 - Military retirement benefits; disability related waiver
- § 25-318.02 - Convicted spouse; award of community property; definition
- § 25-318.03 - Human embryos; disposition; responsibility for resulting child; definitions
- § 25-319 - Maintenance; guidelines; computation factors
- § 25-320 - Child support; factors; methods of payment; additional enforcement provisions; definitions
- § 25-320.02 - Self-employed parent; tax practitioner; definition
- § 25-321 - Representation of child by counsel; fees
- § 25-322 - Payment of maintenance or support; records; disclosure
- § 25-323 - Assignments
- § 25-323.03 - Forms; alternative forms
- § 25-324 - Attorney fees
- § 25-325 - Decree; finality; restoration of maiden name
- § 25-326 - Independence of provisions of decree or temporary order; forms
- § 25-327 - Modification and termination of provisions for maintenance, support and property disposition
- § 25-328 - Sequence of trials when custody or parenting time is an issue
- § 25-329 - Waiting period
- § 25-330 - Employer cooperation
- § 25-331 - Notification requirements
Article 4 - Alienation of Affections Chapter 3 - DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
Article 5 - Domestic Relations Education on Children's Issues
- § 25-351 - Domestic relations education; plan; administration
- § 25-352 - Applicability of program; compliance
- § 25-353 - Failure to comply
- § 25-354 - Children's issues education fund; report
- § 25-355 - Fees; deferral or waiver
Article 7 - Court of Conciliation
- § 25-381.01 - Purposes of article
- § 25-381.02 - Definitions
- § 25-381.03 - Applicability of article; determination by superior court
- § 25-381.04 - Assignment of judges; number of sessions
- § 25-381.05 - Transfer of cases; reason; duties of transferee judge
- § 25-381.06 - Court assistants; salaries; appointments
- § 25-381.07 - Director of conciliation; powers and duties
- § 25-381.08 - Jurisdiction
- § 25-381.09 - Petition invoking jurisdiction or for transfer of action to conciliation court
- § 25-381.10 - Petition; caption
- § 25-381.11 - Petition; contents
- § 25-381.12 - Blank forms; assistance in preparing and presenting petition
- § 25-381.13 - Fees
- § 25-381.14 - Hearing; time; place; notice; citation; witnesses
- § 25-381.15 - Time and place of holding hearings
- § 25-381.16 - Conduct of hearing; recommendations; aid of specialists; expense; confidential communications
- § 25-381.17 - Orders; duration of effectiveness; reconciliation agreement
- § 25-381.18 - Dissolution of marriage; legal separation; annulment; stay of right to file; jurisdiction for pending actions
- § 25-381.19 - Transfer of certain actions where minor child involved
- § 25-381.20 - Procedure in actions where no child is involved; conciliation court may accept case
- § 25-381.21 - Construction of article
- § 25-381.22 - Subsequent petition filed within one year
- § 25-381.23 - Option for mandatory conciliation
- § 25-381.24 - Counseling
Article 1 - Legal Decision-Making and Parenting Time
- § 25-401 - Definitions
- § 25-402 - Jurisdiction
- § 25-403 - Legal decision-making; best interests of child
- § 25-403.01 - Sole and joint legal decision-making and parenting time
- § 25-403.02 - Parenting plans
- § 25-403.03 - Domestic violence and child abuse
- § 25-403.04 - Substance abuse
- § 25-403.05 - Sexual offenders; murderers; legal decision-making and parenting time; notification of risk to child
- § 25-403.06 - Parental access to prescription medication and records
- § 25-403.07 - Identification of a primary caretaker and public assistance
- § 25-403.08 - Resources and fees
- § 25-403.09 - Child support
- § 25-404 - Temporary orders
- § 25-405 - Interviews by court; professional assistance
- § 25-406 - Investigations and reports
- § 25-407 - Legal decision-making and parenting time hearings; priority; costs; record
- § 25-408 - Rights of each parent; parenting time; relocation of child; exception; enforcement; access to prescription medication and records
- § 25-409 - Third party rights
- § 25-410 - Judicial supervision
- § 25-411 - Modification of legal decision-making or parenting time; affidavit; contents; military families
- § 25-412 - Expedited child support and parenting time fund
- § 25-413 - Domestic relations education and mediation fund; report
- § 25-414 - Violation of visitation or parenting time rights; penalties
- § 25-415 - Sanctions for litigation misconduct
- § 25-416 - Sexual assault conviction; effect on rights
- § 25-417 - Parent's blindness; burden of proof; specific written findings; definitions
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 25-500 - Definitions
- § 25-501 - Duties of support; exemption
- § 25-502 - Jurisdiction, venue and procedure; additional enforcement provisions
- § 25-503 - Order for support; methods of payment; modification; termination; statute of limitations; judgment on arrearages; notice; security
- § 25-503.01 - Self-employed parent; monies held as security for payment of support
- § 25-504 - Order of assignment; ex parte order of assignment; responsibilities; violation; termination
- § 25-505 - Limited income withholding orders; definition
- § 25-505.01 - Administrative income withholding order; notice; definition
- § 25-505.02 - Insurance data exchange; withholding orders; immunity; definitions
- § 25-506 - Order for assignment; foreign support order
- § 25-507 - Forms; alternative forms
- § 25-508 - Enforcement of support orders; fee prohibition
- § 25-509 - Representation by attorney general or county attorney; modification of order by attorney general or county attorney
- § 25-510 - Receiving and disbursing support and maintenance monies; arrearages; interest
- § 25-511 - Failure of parent to provide for child; classification
- § 25-511.01 - Spousal maintenance order; violation; classification
- § 25-512 - Consumer credit reports; use of child support or spousal maintenance obligation information
- § 25-513 - Employer cooperation; violation; classification
- § 25-514 - Priority of action and judgments
- § 25-516 - Lien; priority; recording; information statement; payoff amount; release
- § 25-517 - License suspension; notice; administrative review or hearing
- § 25-518 - Child support arrearage; license suspension; hearing
- § 25-519 - Regulatory entities; suspension of license
- § 25-520 - Child support enforcement; administrative subpoena; civil penalty
- § 25-521 - Levy; seizure of property for collection of support debt; definitions
- § 25-522 - Administrative review; notice; determination; judicial review; definitions
- § 25-523 - Financial institutions data match; nonliability; prohibited disclosure; liability; civil liability; definition
- § 25-524 - Financial institutions; surrender of assets; nonliability
- § 25-525 - Administrative enforcement; interstate cases; definition
- § 25-526 - Child support enforcement information; internet posting
- § 25-527 - Child support; overpayment; reimbursement
- § 25-528 - Title IV-D recipients; fee
- § 25-529 - Title IV-D cases; alternative medical insurance coverage
- § 25-530 - Spousal maintenance; veterans disability benefits; definition
Article 2 - Child Medical Support
- § 25-531 - Definitions
- § 25-532 - Enrollment of child
- § 25-533 - Insurer obligations
- § 25-534 - Employer obligations
- § 25-535 - Enforcement of health insurance coverage; medical support notice; administrative review; service
Article 3 - Spousal Maintenance Enforcement
- § 25-551 - Clerk of the court
- § 25-552 - Jurisdiction; priority of action
- § 25-553 - Request for arrearages; deadline
Article 5 - Child Support Arrest Warrants
- § 25-681 - Child support arrest warrant; definition
- § 25-682 - Time and manner of execution; information
- § 25-683 - Procedure after arrest; payment for release from custody
- § 25-684 - Preexisting warrants
- § 25-685 - Entry into criminal information system
Article 1 - Maternity and Paternity Proceedings
- § 25-801 - Jurisdiction
- § 25-802 - Venue
- § 25-803 - Persons who may originate proceedings; legal decision-making; parenting time; conciliation court
- § 25-804 - Time for instituting proceedings
- § 25-805 - Effect of death, absence or insanity of plaintiff
- § 25-806 - Petition
- § 25-807 - Precedence of maternity and paternity proceedings; delay for paternity tests; court order; evidentiary use; alternative tests; out-of-state orders; immunity
- § 25-808 - Preliminary injunction; temporary restraining order; effect
- § 25-809 - Judgment
- § 25-810 - Liability of parents if putative mother or father is a minor; periodic payments
- § 25-812 - Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity; action to overcome paternity
- § 25-813 - Default order of paternity
- § 25-814 - Presumption of paternity
- § 25-815 - Paternity; full faith and credit
- § 25-816 - Title IV-D child support; paternity establishment; genetic testing
- § 25-817 - Temporary orders; presumption of paternity
- § 25-818 - Paternity case registry; acknowledgments and paternity and maternity orders; recording requirements
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 25-901 - Covenant marriage; declaration of intent; filing requirements
- § 25-902 - Existing marriages; conversion to covenant marriage; recording requirements
- § 25-903 - Dissolution of a covenant marriage; grounds
- § 25-904 - Decree of legal separation; grounds
- § 25-905 - Temporary orders for support and spousal maintenance
- § 25-906 - Information pamphlet; requirements; distribution
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 25-1001 - Short title
- § 25-1002 - Definitions
- § 25-1003 - Proceeding governed by other law
- § 25-1004 - Application to Indian tribes
- § 25-1005 - International application of chapter
- § 25-1006 - Effect of child custody determination
- § 25-1007 - Priority
- § 25-1008 - Notice to persons outside this state
- § 25-1009 - Appearance and limited immunity
- § 25-1010 - Communication between courts; definition
- § 25-1011 - Taking testimony in another state
- § 25-1012 - Cooperation between courts; preservation of records
- § 25-1013 - Military deployment; home state
Article 2 - Jurisdiction
- § 25-1031 - Initial child custody jurisdiction
- § 25-1032 - Exclusive continuing jurisdiction
- § 25-1033 - Jurisdiction to modify determination
- § 25-1034 - Temporary emergency jurisdiction
- § 25-1035 - Notice; opportunity to be heard; joinder
- § 25-1036 - Simultaneous proceedings
- § 25-1037 - Inconvenient forum
- § 25-1038 - Jurisdiction declined by reason of conduct
- § 25-1039 - Information to be submitted to court
- § 25-1040 - Appearance of parties and child
Article 3 - Enforcement
- § 25-1051 - Definitions
- § 25-1052 - Enforcement under Hague convention
- § 25-1053 - Duty to enforce
- § 25-1054 - Temporary visitation
- § 25-1055 - Registration of child custody determination
- § 25-1056 - Enforcement of registered determination
- § 25-1057 - Simultaneous proceedings
- § 25-1058 - Expedited enforcement of child custody determination
- § 25-1059 - Service of petition and order
- § 25-1060 - Hearing and order
- § 25-1061 - Warrant to take physical custody of child
- § 25-1062 - Costs, fees and expenses
- § 25-1063 - Recognition and enforcement
- § 25-1064 - Appeals
- § 25-1065 - Role of attorney general
- § 25-1066 - Role of law enforcement
- § 25-1067 - Costs and expenses
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 25-1201 - Short title
- § 25-1202 - Definitions
- § 25-1203 - State tribunal and support enforcement agency
- § 25-1204 - Remedies cumulative
- § 25-1205 - Application of chapter to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding
Article 2 - Jurisdiction
- § 25-1221 - Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident
- § 25-1222 - Duration of personal jurisdiction
- § 25-1223 - Initiating and responding tribunal of state
- § 25-1224 - Simultaneous proceedings
- § 25-1225 - Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify child support order
- § 25-1226 - Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order
- § 25-1227 - Determination of controlling child support order
- § 25-1228 - Child support orders for two or more obligees
- § 25-1229 - Credit for payments
- § 25-1230 - Application of chapter to nonresident subject to personal jurisdiction
- § 25-1231 - Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal support order
Article 3 - Civil Provisions of General Application
- § 25-1241 - Proceedings under this chapter
- § 25-1242 - Proceeding by minor parent
- § 25-1243 - Application of law of state
- § 25-1244 - Duties of initiating tribunal
- § 25-1245 - Duties and powers of responding tribunal
- § 25-1246 - Inappropriate tribunal
- § 25-1247 - Duties of support enforcement agency
- § 25-1248 - Duty of the attorney general
- § 25-1249 - Private counsel
- § 25-1250 - Duties of department of economic security
- § 25-1251 - Pleadings and accompanying documents
- § 25-1252 - Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances
- § 25-1253 - Costs and fees
- § 25-1254 - Limited immunity of petitioner
- § 25-1255 - Nonparentage as defense
- § 25-1256 - Special rules of evidence and procedure
- § 25-1257 - Communications between tribunals
- § 25-1258 - Assistance with discovery
- § 25-1259 - Receipt and disbursement of payments
Article 4 - Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage Chapter 9 - UNIFORM INTERESTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
Article 5 - Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration
- § 25-1281 - Employer's receipt of income withholding order of another state
- § 25-1282 - Employer's compliance with income withholding order of another state
- § 25-1283 - Employer's compliance with two or more income withholding orders
- § 25-1284 - Immunity from civil liability
- § 25-1285 - Penalties for noncompliance
- § 25-1286 - Contest by obligor
- § 25-1287 - Administrative enforcement of orders
Article 6 - Registration, Enforcement and Modification of Support Order
- § 25-1301 - Registration of order for enforcement
- § 25-1302 - Procedure to register order for enforcement
- § 25-1303 - Effect of registration for enforcement
- § 25-1304 - Choice of law
- § 25-1305 - Notice of registration of order
- § 25-1306 - Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered support order
- § 25-1307 - Contest of registration or enforcement
- § 25-1308 - Confirmed order
- § 25-1309 - Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification
- § 25-1310 - Effect of registration for modification
- § 25-1311 - Modification of child support order of another state
- § 25-1312 - Recognition of order modified in another state
- § 25-1313 - Jurisdiction to modify child support order of another state if individual parties reside in this state
- § 25-1314 - Notice to issuing tribunal of modification
- § 25-1315 - Jurisdiction to modify child support order of foreign country
- § 25-1316 - Procedure to register child support order of foreign country for modification
Article 7 - Support Proceeding Under Convention
- § 25-1331 - Definitions
- § 25-1332 - Applicability
- § 25-1333 - Relationship of department of economic security to United States central authority
- § 25-1334 - Initiation by department of economic security of support proceeding under convention
- § 25-1335 - Direct request
- § 25-1336 - Registration of convention support order
- § 25-1337 - Contest of registered convention support order
- § 25-1338 - Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support order
- § 25-1339 - Partial enforcement
- § 25-1340 - Foreign support agreement
- § 25-1341 - Modification of convention child support order
- § 25-1342 - Personal information; limit on use
- § 25-1343 - Record in original language; English translation
Article 8 - Interstate Rendition Chapter 10 - LEGITIMACY OF CHILDREN
Article 1 - General Provisions Chapter 11 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS PROCEEDINGS
Article 1 - General Provisions
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