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Utah Standard Minimum Parent-time

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

The Utah Code for Standard Minimum Parent-time is found at Utah Code Annotated 30-3-35 (and 30-3-35.3 if your children are less than 5 years old). Utah Code Annotated 30-3-35 was updated in 2010 and below we provide the most recent version, as of November 2010.

This code provision provides the basic parent-time schedule for the regular rotation of parent-time, holidays, snow days, and many other divisions of time and duties between parents, including the ability for third parties to provide transportation for parent-time. If you are subject to this provision by agreement or court order, it is well worth reading carefully or even coming into our office for an inexpensive ($25.00) consultation to have the code interpreted to apply to your particular circumstances. (more…)

How to Use Utah Child Support Calculators

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

The Utah Court website and the Utah Office of Recovery Services website provide child support calculators that use the current Utah child support guidelines to accurately calculate child support.  You can link to them from this site by clicking on the links in the previous sentence.

BUT a child support calculator is not helpful to you if you don’t know what information to put into the calculator and why! (more…)

New Holiday Standard Minimum Parent-Time in Utah as of May 5, 2008

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Utah Code Annotated section 30-3-35 has been revised, effective May 5, 2008, to provide a different rotation of parent-time for Holidays as compared to the statute provision in past years.  In the code, “Custodial” generally is used as a reference to the parent who has primary custody or more parent-time and “non-Custodial” generally refers to the parent who has less parent-time.  Remember to refer to your current court orders as a reference because the statute changes may not apply to every situation.

The following is the new holiday schedule for custodial parents in even-numbered years and non-custodial parents in odd-numbered years:

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