§ 15-5-16.6. Security, bond, or guarantee to secure payment of overdue support. (a) In a proceeding to enforce overdue support, as defined in subsection (b) of this section, the court or its magistrate, after a hearing and a finding of overdue support, may require an obligor parent to give security, post a bond, or give […]
§ 15-5-16.7. Review of child support orders. (a) For purposes of this section, a “child support order” means a child support order enforceable pursuant to the Rhode Island state plan for support enforcement as further defined in § 15-16-5(a). (b) Every three (3) years from the date the child support order was established or modified, […]
§ 15-5-17. Change of name. Any woman, to whom a divorce from the bond of marriage is decreed, shall, upon request, be authorized by the decree to change her name, notwithstanding that there may be children born of the marriage, and subject to the same rights and liabilities as if her name had not been […]
§ 15-5-18. Interlocutory decrees and injunctions. After the filing and during the pendency of any petition for divorce, the court may make any interlocutory decrees and grant any temporary injunctions that may be necessary until a hearing can be had before the court. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 195, § 16; G.L. 1909, ch. 247, […]
§ 15-5-19. Restraining orders — Treatment for harmed or menaced spouse — Custody of children — Allowances — Alimony and counsel fees. (a) Whenever either party to a marriage is insane, or whenever a cause is in existence which is, or if continued, will be a cause for divorce, the family court, upon the original […]
§ 15-5-19.1. Restraining orders — Notification of local authorities — Notice of penalty. (a)(1) The clerk of the family court may, if requested by the prevailing party’s attorney, immediately forward a certified copy of any restraining order issued pursuant to § 15-5-19(a) to the police department of the municipality in which the prevailing party is […]
§ 15-5-2. Additional grounds for divorce. Divorces from the bond of marriage shall also be decreed for the following causes: (1) Impotency; (2) Adultery; (3) Extreme cruelty; (4) Willful desertion for five (5) years of either of the parties, or for willful desertion for a shorter period of time in the discretion of the court; […]
§ 15-5-20. Service on or notice to defendant. No person shall be entitled to a divorce from the bond of marriage unless the defendant, in accordance with rules adopted by the court, has been personally served with process if within the state, or with personal notice duly authenticated if out of the state, or unless […]
§ 15-5-21. Service by publication — Jurisdiction acquired. After service of process on any petition, whether by citation or by publication, where the adverse party has no attorney of record and cannot be found for the service of citation or notice of any motion or any other matter arising in the course of the proceedings, […]
§ 15-5-22. Trial required — Collusion. No divorce from the bond of marriage shall be granted solely upon default nor solely upon admissions by the pleadings, except upon trial before the court in open session; nor shall the divorce be granted where the court is satisfied that there has been any collusion or corrupt conduct […]
§ 15-5-23. Final judgment — Remarriage. (a) No judgment for a divorce shall become final and operative until three (3) months after the trial and decision. Final decree from the bond of marriage may be entered ex parte and in chambers on the suggestion of the prevailing party at any time within one hundred eighty […]
§ 15-5-24. Support — Wage assignment procedures. (a) With respect to a support order issued, enforced, or modified on or after January 1, 1994, the income of an obligor shall be subject to immediate income withholding under chapter 16 of this title on the effective date of the order, regardless of whether support payments by […]
§ 15-5-24.1. Visitation rights of grandparents. The court may, upon miscellaneous petition of a grandparent whose child is deceased, grant reasonable visitation rights of the grandchild or grandchildren to the grandparent, whether or not any divorce or custody proceedings were ever commenced, and may issue all necessary orders to enforce visitation rights. History of Section.P.L. […]
§ 15-5-24.2. Visitation rights of grandparents whose child is denied or has failed to exercise rights. In any divorce proceeding the family court may, upon petition of a grandparent whose grandchild is a child of the marriage, grant reasonable visitation rights of the grandchild to the grandparent. The court may issue all necessary orders to […]
§ 15-5-24.3. Visitation rights — Grandparents and siblings. (a)(1) The family court, upon miscellaneous petition of a grandparent for visitation rights with the petitioner’s grandchild, and upon notice to both parents of the child, and after a hearing on the petition, may grant reasonable rights of visitation of the grandchild to the petitioner. (2) The […]
§ 15-5-24.4. Sibling visitation rights. (a) The family court, upon miscellaneous petition of a brother, sister, half-brother or half-sister, stepbrother, stepsister, or on behalf of any of those persons by his or her legal guardian, for visitation rights for the petitioner’s sibling, half-sibling or stepsibling and upon notice to both parents of the child and […]
§ 15-5-24.5. Court ordered visitation rights to certain persons convicted of first degree murder — Prohibited. No court shall make an order providing visitation rights to a parent who has been convicted of murder in the first degree of the other parent of the child who is the subject of the order, unless that court […]
§ 15-5-25. Application for wage withholding — Obligor in arrears. (a)(1) In cases where a wage withholding has not been secured pursuant to § 15-5-24, upon application of the child or of any person having a direct interest in the welfare of the child, or any person to whom support is owed pursuant to court […]
§ 15-5-26. Duties and liabilities of employer under income assignment order or order for wage withholding. (a) Any wage withholding agent failing to comply with any requirements in §§ 15-5-24 and 15-5-25 may be punished by the court for civil contempt. The court shall first afford the wage withholding agent a reasonable opportunity to purge […]
§ 15-5-27. Order for wage withholding — Duration. An order for wage withholding under §§ 15-5-24 and 15-5-25 shall remain in effect until modified or terminated by the court. History of Section.P.L. 1980, ch. 304, § 1; P.L. 1984, ch. 199, § 2; P.L. 1997, ch. 170, § 1.
