West Virginia Legislative Photography The West Virginia House of Delegates voted on Monday, March 8, 2021, to pass a bill for 50-50 shared custody of children.
The West Virginia House of Delegates has agreed once more to send the Senate legislation amending state code for co-equal child custody, save for court-proven incidents of domestic violence or child abuse.
Current law calls for custody plans to be crafted based on care-taking functions whoever spends the most time with a child gets the most time after a divorce or separation.
House Bill 2363, in creating a Best Interests of the Child Protection Act of 2021, swaps this for automatic 50-50 custody.
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CHARLESTON The Republicans in the West Virginia House of Delegates flexed their supermajority muscle in passing a constitutional amendment that makes it clear that the buck stops with the Legislature when it comes to impeachments.
House Joint Resolution 2, providing that courts have no authority or jurisdiction to intervene in or interfere with any impeachment proceedings of the House of Delegates or the Senate, was adopted 78-21.
Joint resolutions require a two-thirds vote by both the House and state Senate, which is 67 members in the House. Not only did HJR 2 easily received the two-thirds vote needed, Democratic delegates Mick Bates, D-Raleigh, and Cody Thompson, D-Randolph, crossed party lines to vote with the Republican supermajority.
CHARLESTON – The House of Delegates has passed a resolution saying court have no authority to interfere with impeachment proceedings in the House or state Senate.
House Joint Resolution 2 passed by a 78-21 vote March 2. If it passes the Senate by a two-thirds majority, voters might be able to decide for themselves whether to amend the state Constitution in the 2022 election.
“The House of Delegates shall have sole power of impeachment,” the state Constitution currently reads. “The Senate shall have sole power to try impeachment.” Williams
The resolution would add language similar to this: “No court of this state has any authority or jurisdiction, by writ or otherwise, to intercede or intervene in, or interfere with, any impeachment proceedings of the House of Delegates or the Senate conducted hereafter. Nor is any judgment rendered by the Senate following a trial of impeachment reviewable by any court of this state.”
CHARLESTON An attempt by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to give the Legislature say on the current state of emergency for the COVID-19 failed in a narrow v
CHARLESTON An attempt by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to give the Legislature say on the current state of emergency for the COVID-19 failed in a narrow v