Has the legislature passed any law or proposed legislation that addresses medical coverage in a divorce proceeding?
State law requires child support orders to include provisions for health care coverage. Family courts can order a parent who has access to reasonably-priced employer-sponsored coverage to enroll the child or order that the child be enrolled in HUSKY, the state children’s health insurance program. They can direct the other parent to contribute to the insurance costs if he or she has the financial means to do so (CGS 46b-84(f)). Summarize the postmajority educational support law that the legislature enacted in 2002. PA 02-128 permits judges and family support magistrates to order parents to support their children for up to four full academic years when enrolled in accredited college or vocational programs after high school and until they reach age 23. Courts can do this only if they find it more likely than not that the parents would have provided this support if the family remained intact. The act specifies other circumstances courts must consider and conditions the parents and students
