The Utah legislature’s joint interim judiciary committee meets today to consider what items to study during the interim, including:
- issues related to amendments to the Judicial Code
- Medical Malpractice Reform patterned after Texas’s “loser pays attorney fees” provision
- changes regarding who may adopt a child
- animal rights as a property rights interest
- whether to reduce the age from 16 to 14 for children who wish to express their opinion in child custody proceedings
- removal of language from the divorce statute favoring one spouse over the other and providing for equal footing in property matters
- study a process for offers of judgment in civil cases
