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  • CHAPTER 1 - MARRIAGE

    Article 1 - Capacity of Persons to Marry
    25-101 - Void and prohibited marriages
    25-102 - Consent required for marriage of minors
    25-103 - Purposes
    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
    25-122 - Consent of parent or guardian of minor
    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
    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
    CHAPTER 2 - HUSBAND AND WIFE, PROPERTY AND CONTRACT RIGHTS
    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
    25-213 - Separate property defined
    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
    CHAPTER 3 - DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
    Article 1 - Annulment
    25-301 - Grounds
    25-302 - Procedure and law
    25-311.01 - Fees
    25-312 - Dissolution of marriage; findings necessary
    25-313 - Decree of legal separation; findings necessary
    25-314 - Pleadings; contents; defense; joinder of parties; confidentiality
    25-315 - Temporary order or preliminary injunction; effect; definition
    25-316 - Irretrievable breakdown; finding
    25-317 - Separation agreement; effect
    25-318 - Disposition of property; retroactivity; notice to creditors; assignment of debts; contempt of court
    25-319 - Maintenance; computation factors
    25-320 - Child support; factors; methods of payment; additional enforcement provisions; definitions
    25-320.01 - Child support enforcement and domestic relations reform committee; child support coordinating council subcommittee; domestic relations reform study subcommittee; program termination
    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
    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; exemption
    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
    CHAPTER 4 - CHILD CUSTODY AND VISITATION
    Article 1 - Child Custody
    25-401 - Jurisdiction; commencement of proceedings
    25-402 - Definitions
    25-403 - Custody; drug offenses; best interests of child; joint custody; domestic violence; modification of decree; fees
    25-404 - Temporary orders
    25-405 - Interviews by court; professional assistance
    25-406 - Investigations and reports
    25-407 - Custody hearings; priority; costs; record
    25-408 - Rights of noncustodial parent; parenting time; exception; enforcement; access to records; suspension of parenting time; relocation of child
    25-409 - Visitation rights of grandparents and great-grandparents
    25-410 - Judicial supervision
    25-411 - Affidavit; contents
    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 - Custody by nonparent; presumption; grounds; definitions
    CHAPTER 5 - FAMILY SUPPORT DUTIES
    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; revocation; 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
    25-506 - 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
    25-511 - Failure of parent to provide for child; 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; notice; priority; recording; reciprocity
    25-517 - Title IV-D agency; license suspension; notice
    25-518 - Child support arrearage; license suspension; hearing; definition
    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
    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
    Article 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
    25-621 - Definitions
    25-622 - Remedies; nonexclusion
    25-623 - Nonresidents; jurisdiction
    25-624 - Proceedings; tribunals; initiating; responding
    25-625 - Simultaneous proceedings in another state
    25-626 - Continuing and exclusive jurisdiction
    25-627 - Enforcement and modification of a support order by a tribunal having continuing jurisdiction
    25-628 - Recognition of controlling child support orders; procedure
    25-629 - Multiple child support orders for two or more obligees
    25-630 - Credit for payments
    25-631 - Proceedings; scope
    25-632 - Minor parent; standing
    25-633 - Application of law
    25-634 - Duties of initiating and responding tribunal
    25-635 - Duties of support enforcement agency; attorney general
    25-636 - Private counsel
    25-637 - Duties of the department of economic security
    25-638 - Pleadings and accompanying documents; information; exception; costs
    25-639 - Petitioner; limited immunity
    25-640 - Nonparentage; defense
    25-641 - Special rules of evidence and procedure
    25-642 - Communications between tribunals
    25-643 - Assistance with discovery
    25-644 - Receipt and disbursement of payments
    25-645 - Establishment of support order
    25-646 - Employer's receipt of an income withholding order of another state
    25-647 - Administrative enforcement of orders
    25-648 - Registration of order for enforcement
    25-649 - Notice of registration of order
    25-650 - Procedure to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered order
    25-651 - Contest of registration or enforcement
    25-652 - Confirmation of order; effect
    25-653 - Registration and modification of a child support order; procedure
    25-654 - Recognition of an order modified in another state
    25-655 - Proceedings to determine parentage
    25-656 - Extradition; powers of the governor; procedure
    25-657 - Compliance with multiple income withholding orders
    25-658 - Immunity from civil liability
    25-659 - Penalties for noncompliance
    25-660 - Contest of validity by obligor
    25-661 - Jurisdiction to modify support order of another state
    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
    CHAPTER 6 - MATERNITY AND PATERNITY PROCEEDINGS
    Article 1 - Maternity and Paternity Proceedings
    25-801 - Jurisdiction
    25-802 - Venue
    25-803 - Persons who may originate proceedings; custody; parenting time; conciliation court
    25-804 - Time for instituting proceedings
    25-805 - Effect of death, absence, or insanity of plaintiff
    25-806 - Complaint
    25-807 - Precedence of maternity and paternity proceedings; delay for blood or tissue tests; court order; evidentiary use; alternative tests
    25-808 - Issue
    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 support orders; presumption of paternity
    CHAPTER 7 - COVENANT MARRIAGE
    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
    CHAPTER 8 - UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT
    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
    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

    Bankruptcy Exemptions
    CHAPTER 8 - HOMESTEAD AND PERSONAL PROPERTY EXEMPTION
    Article 1 - Homesteads and Homestead Exemption
    33-1101 - Homestead defined; homestead exemptions; persons entitled to hold homesteads
    33-1102 - Exemption by operation of law; designation of multiple properties on creditor's request; recording
    33-1103 - Effective date of homestead exemption; extent of exemption; exceptions
    33-1104 - Abandonment of homestead; encumbrance of homestead
    33-1105 - Sale by judgment creditor of property subject to homestead exemption

    Article 2 - Personal Property Exemption
    33-1121 - Definitions
    33-1121.01 - Availability of exemptions
    33-1122 - Debtor's property not exempt from process
    33-1123 - Household furniture, furnishings and appliances
    33-1124 - Food, fuel and provisions
    33-1125 - Personal items
    33-1126 - Money benefits or proceeds; exception
    33-1127 - School equipment
    33-1128 - Fire fighting equipment
    33-1129 - Public property or property of a public character
    33-1130 - Tools and equipment used in a commercial activity, trade, business or profession
    33-1131 - Definition; wages; salary; compensation
    33-1132 - Waiver of exemption rights void
    33-1133 - Other exemption laws

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