Child Custody Review Task Force

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(2186 § 2) The Legislative Management shall create a Child Custody Review Task Force. The membership of the task force includes one member of the Supreme Court self-help program, appointed by the Supreme Court; one member representing the district courts, appointed by the Supreme Court; one member appointed by the State Bar Association; two members of the House or Senate Judiciary Committees, appointed by the Chairman of the Legislative Management; one member of the Senate, appointed by the Senate Majority Leader; one member of the House, appointed by the House Majority Leader; two members representing parents subject to a child custody order; one member representing law enforcement; one member representing family mediators; and the Director of Legal Services of North Dakota. The task force is required to meet at least once each calendar quarter or more frequently at the call of the presiding officer; address issues involving the withholding of a child in violation of a custody decree and issues relating to a parent or party who provides false information against another parent or party in connection to a child custody order; consider ways to expeditiously and effectively enforce violations of custody orders, particularly the withholding of a child; and consider the development of self-help or artificial intelligence assisted forms and processes, expedited access to ex parte contempt of court orders, and other civil and criminal penalties, including possible additional compensatory time, and successful remedies used in other states.