A. In any action for dissolution of marriage, legal separation, paternity, or guardianship where minor children are involved, the court may, upon its own motion, or by motion or agreement of the parties, appoint a parenting coordinator to assist the parties in resolving issues and decide disputed issues pursuant to the provisions of the Parenting Coordinator Act related to parenting or other family issues in the case except as provided in subsection B of this section, and subsection A of Section 120.5 of this title.
B. The court shall not appoint a parenting coordinator if any party objects, unless:
1. The court makes specific findings that the case is a high-conflict case; and
2. The court makes specific findings that the appointment of a parenting coordinator is in the best interest of any minor child in the case.
C. 1. The authority of a parenting coordinator shall be specified in the order appointing the parenting coordinator and limited to matters that will aid the parties in:
2. The appointment of a parenting coordinator shall not divest the court of its exclusive jurisdiction to determine fundamental issues of custody, visitation, and support, and the authority to exercise management and control of the case.
3. The parenting coordinator shall not make any modification to any order, judgment or decree; however, the parenting coordinator may allow the parties to make minor temporary departures from a parenting plan if authorized by the court to do so. The appointment order should specify those matters which the parenting coordinator is authorized to determine. The order shall specify which determinations will be immediately effective and which will require an opportunity for court review prior to taking effect.
D. The parties may limit the decision-making authority of the parenting coordinator to specific issues or areas if the parenting coordinator is being appointed pursuant to agreement of the parties.
E. Meetings between the parenting coordinator and the parties need not follow any specific procedures and the meetings may be informal. All communication between the parties and the parenting coordinator shall not be confidential.
F. Nothing in the Parenting Coordinator Act shall abrogate the custodial or noncustodial parent’s rights or any court-ordered visitation given to grandparents or other persons except as specifically addressed in the order appointing the parenting coordinator.
G. 1. Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, the court shall reserve the right to remove the parenting coordinator in its own discretion.
2. The court may remove the parenting coordinator upon the request and agreement of both parties. Upon the motion of either party and good cause shown, the court may remove the parenting coordinator.
Added by Laws 2001, c. 407, § 10, eff. July 1, 2001. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 302, § 7, emerg. eff. May 28, 2003.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§43-3.1. Recognition of marriage between persons of same gender prohibited.
§43-5. Application - Fees - Issuance of license and certificate.
§43-5.1. Premarital counseling.
§43-7. Solemnization of marriages.
§43-8. Endorsement and return of license.
§43-9. Records - Return of original.
§43-10. Evidence before issue of license.
§43-11. Copy of record - Admission as evidence.
§43-14. Penalty for performing unlawful marriage.
§43-15. Miscellaneous offenses - Penalties.
§43-16. Soliciting in or near court house or grounds prohibited.
§43-17. Punishment for violations.
§43-18. Injunction against violations.
§43-102. Residence of plaintiff or defendant.
§43-103. Venue for any action for divorce, annulment of a marriage or legal separation.
§43-104. Personal jurisdiction in certain divorce actions.
§43-104.1. District court referees.
§43-105. Petition and summons.
§43-107.2. Actions where minor child involved - Court-ordered educational program.
§43-107.4. Motion for an emergency custody hearing.
§43-108. Parties in equal wrong - Custody of children - Disposition of property.
§43-109.1. Custody during parents' separation.
§43-109.2. Paternity determination.
§43-109.3. Custody, guardianship or visitation cases - Evidence of domestic abuse.
§43-109.4. Grandparental visitation rights.
§43-109.5. Voluntary relinquishment of physical custody –Presumption.
§43-110. Automatic temporary injunction – Temporary orders.
§43-110.1. Shared parenting - Policy.
§43-110.1a. Oklahoma Child Supervised Visitation Program – Policy – Definitions.
§43-110.2. Blood, saliva, urine or any other tests – Child custody or visitation.
§43-111.1A. Standard visitation schedule – Advisory guidelines.
§43-111.2. Civil action for child stealing.
§43-112. Care and custody of children.
§43-112.1A. Definitions - Child support - Parental rights and duties – Actions and jurisdiction.
§43-112.2A. Parent's right to change child's residence.
§43-112.3. Notice of proposed relocation or change of residence.
§43-112.4. No duty to maintain stepchildren.
§43-112.6. Awarding of attorney fees and costs – Victim of domestic violence or stalking.
§43-112.7. Modification of custody - Military deployment.
§43-112A. Central case registry on IV─-D cases and child support orders.
§43-113. Preference of child – Record of interview.
§43-114. Interest on court-ordered past-due child support payments and payments of suit monies.
§43-115. Order for child support or modification of order - Provision for income assignment.
§43-116. Security, bond or other guarantee for child support.
§43-117. Modification, suspension or termination of order for income assignment.
§43-118. Child support guidelines.
§43-118.1. Review of child support orders - Disclosure of financial status.
§43-118.2. Employer sponsored health care coverage.
§43-118.3. Request for wage and tax information.
§43-118.4. Assignment or transfer of child support benefits – Attorney fees.
§43-118C. Deductions from gross income for qualified other children.
§43-118E. Parenting time adjustment - Reduction in child support obligation.
§43-118F. Medical support order for health care coverage.
§43-118G. Actual annualized child care expenses.
§43-118H. Deviation from guidelines child support amount.
§43-118I. Modification of child support orders.
§43-119. Computation of child support obligations.
§43-120.4. Report of decision.
§43-120.5. Fees - Appointment.
§43-120.7. Court expert - Procedures.
§43-121. Restoration of maiden or former name - Alimony - Division of property.
§43-123. Remarriage and cohabitation - Appeal from judgment.
§43-125. Validation of decrees annulling marriage or granting divorce.
§43-126. Remarriage within six months as ground for annulment.
§43-127. Time when judgments in divorce actions become final - Effect of appeal.
§43-128. Avoidance of marriage of incompetents.
§43-129. Alimony without divorce.
§43-131. Residency in divorce cases.
§43-133. Setting aside of divorce decrees upon petition of parties.
§43-135. Lien for arrearage in child support payments.
§43-139. Legal right to child support.
§43-140. Problem-solving court program - Participation by obligors of state child support plan.
§43-150. Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act.
§43-150.2. Custodial responsibility – Jurisdiction - Residency.
§43-150.3. Deployed parent - Exercise of visiting rights by third party.
§43-150.4. Deployment orders - Copy to nondeploying parent.
§43-150.6. Temporary custody orders - Deploying parent privilege.
§43-150.7. Permissible court orders.
§43-150.8. Court-ordered visitation - Appearance at hearing - Rebuttable presumptions.
§43-150.9. Notification of completion of deployment.
§43-150.10. Bad faith - Penalties.
§43-205. Relations cannot be altered by contract - Separation agreements.
§43-206. Mutual consent as consideration for separation agreement.
§43-207. Manner of holding property - Inventory of separate property.
§43-208. Liability for acts and debts of spouse - Curtesy and dower abolished.
§43-209.1. Joint and several liability of husband and wife.
§43-209.2. Parent's liability for value of child's necessaries.
§43-210. Liability on abandonment or separation by agreement.
§43-211. Management, sale or encumbrance of property of one by the other, when.
§43-212. Contracts binding on both - Liability for acts - Suits and proceedings.
§43-213. Order set aside, when.
§43-214. Rights of married women.
§43-413. Payment of support through registry.
§43-421. Authorization of public or private agencies to provide registry - Maximum fee.
§43-423. Court order for participation in registry program.
§43-424. Forms for petition and court order - Modification of visitation rights.
§43-425. Court to hear applications for participation in registry within certain time.
§43-551-103. Proceedings governed by other law.
§43-551-104. Application to Indian tribes.
§43-551-105. International application of act.
§43-551-106. Effect of child custody determination.
§43-551-108. Notice to persons outside state.
§43-551-109. Appearance and limited immunity.
§43-551-110. Communication between courts.
§43-551-111. Taking testimony in another state.
§43-551-112. Cooperation between courts; preservation of records.
§43-551-201. Initial child custody jurisdiction.
§43-551-202. Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction.
§43-551-203. Jurisdiction to modify determination.
§43-551-204. Temporary emergency jurisdiction.
§43-551-205. Notice; opportunity to be heard; joinder.
§43-551-206. Simultaneous proceedings.
§43-551-207. Inconvenient forum.
§43-551-208. Jurisdiction declined by reason of conduct.
§43-551-209. Information to be submitted to court.
§43-551-210. Appearance of parties and child.
§43-551-302. Enforcement under Hague Convention.
§43-551-304. Temporary visitation.
§43-551-305. Registration of child custody determination.
§43-551-306. Enforcement of registered determination.
§43-551-307. Simultaneous proceedings.
§43-551-308. Expedited enforcement of child custody determination.
§43-551-309. Service of petition and order.
§43-551-310. Hearing and order.
§43-551-311. Warrant to take physical custody of child.
§43-551-312. Costs, fees, and expenses.
§43-551-313. Recognition and enforcement.
§43-551-315. Role of district attorney.
§43-551-316. Role of law enforcement.
§43-551-317. Costs and expenses.
§43-551-401. Application and construction.
§43-551-402. Transitional provision.
§43-601-101. Short title - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
§43-601-103. Tribunals and support enforcement agency.
§43-601-104. Remedies cumulative.
§43-601-105. Application to support proceedings.
§43-601-201. Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident
§43-601-202. Duration of jurisdiction.
§43-601-203. Initiating and responding tribunal of this state.
§43-601-204. Simultaneous proceedings in another state or foreign country
§43-601-205. Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction - Controlling order
§43-601-206. Request for enforcement of order by tribunal of other state
§43-601-207. Determination of controlling order.
§43-601-208. Child support orders for two or more obligees.
§43-601-209. Credit for payments
§43-601-210. Receipt of evidence from outside the state - Applicable law
§43-601-301. Proceedings under this act.
§43-601-302. Action by minor parent.
§43-601-303. Application of law of this state.
§43-601-304. Duties of initiating tribunal
§43-601-305. Duties and powers of responding tribunal.
§43-601-306. Inappropriate tribunal.
§43-601-307. Duties of support enforcement agency
§43-601-308. Powers of Attorney General.
§43-601-310. Duties of state information agency.
§43-601-311. Petition - Contents and accompanying documents
§43-601-312. Sealing of information.
§43-601-314. Limited immunity of petitioner
§43-601-315. Nonparentage as defense.
§43-601-316. Special rules of evidence and procedure
§43-601-317. Communications between tribunals
§43-601-318. Assistance with discovery.
§43-601-401. Petition to establish support order.
§43-601-402. Responding tribunal.
§43-601-501. Recognition of income-withholding order issued in another state.
§43-601-502. Employer obligations.
§43-601-503. Two or more income-withholding orders.
§43-601-504. Employer's civil liability limited.
§43-601-505. Willful noncompliance
§43-601-506. Contest of order.
§43-601-507. Administrative enforcement of orders.
§43-601-601. Registration of order for enforcement.
§43-601-602. Procedure to register order for enforcement
§43-601-603. Effect of registration for enforcement.
§43-601-604. Law, procedures and remedies to be applied
§43-601-605. Notice of registration of order
§43-601-606. Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered order
§43-601-607. Contest of registration or enforcement
§43-601-609. Procedure to register child support order of another state for modification.
§43-601-610. Effect of registration for modification.
§43-601-611. Modification of child support order of another state
§43-601-612. Recognition of order modified in another state.
§43-601-613. Jurisdiction - Applicability of provisions
§43-601-614. Filing of modified child support order.
§43-601-616. Registration of foreign child support orders - Petition for modification.
§43-601-702. Application of article.
§43-601-703. Department of Human Services as designated agency.
§43-601-704. Duties of Department of Human Services
§43-601-706. Registration of support order.
§43-601-707. Contest of a registered convention support order.
§43-601-708. Recognition and enforcement of registered convention support orders - Exceptions
§43-601-709. Severability of convention support orders.
§43-601-710. Recognition and enforcement of registered foreign support agreements - Exceptions.
§43-601-711. Residency of obligee – Jurisdiction - Nonrecognition of order.
§43-601-712. Permissible uses of personal information.
§43-601-713. English translation.
§43-601-801. Grounds for rendition.
§43-601-802. Condition of rendition.
§43-601-901. Uniformity of application and construction.