Amendment ASA1-AB75

AB75-ASA1,1651,14 812.30 (9) "Need-based public assistance" means aid to families with dependent children, relief funded by a relief block grant under ch. 49, relief provided by counties under s. 59.53 (21), medical assistance, supplemental security income, food stamps, or benefits received by veterans under s. 45.40 (1) or under 38 USC 501 to 562.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3230 Section 3230. 812.44 (4) (form) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1651,16 812.44 (4) (form)

AB75-ASA1,1651,21 2. You receive aid to families with dependent children, relief funded by a relief block grant under ch. 49, relief provided by counties under section s. 59.53 (21) of the Wisconsin Statutes, medical assistance, supplemental security income, food stamps, or veterans benefits based on need under 38 USC 501 to 562 or section 45.351 (1) of the Wisconsin Statutes, or have received these benefits within the past 6 months.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3231 Section 3231. 812.44 (5) (form) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1651,23 812.44 (5) (form)

AB75-ASA1,1652,4 ... 2. (5) (form) paragraph 2. I receive, am eligible for, or have within 6 months received, aid to families with dependent children, relief funded by a relief block grant under ch. 49, relief provided by counties under section 59.53 (21) of the Wisconsin Statutes, medical assistance, supplemental security income, food stamps, or veterans benefits based on need under 38 USC 501 to 562 or section 45.351 (1) of the Wisconsin Statutes.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3232 Section 3232. 814.29 (1) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1652,10 814.29 (1) (d) 1. That the person is a recipient of means-tested public assistance, including aid to families with dependent children, relief funded by a relief block grant under ch. 49, relief provided by counties under s. 59.53 (21), medical assistance, supplemental security income, food stamps, or benefits received by veterans under s. 45.40 (1) or under 38 USC 501 to 562.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3234 Section 3234. 814.67 (1) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 814.67 (1) (c) (intro.) and amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1652,16 814.67 (1) (c) (intro.) For traveling, at the rate of 20 cents per mile going and returning from his or her residence if within the state; or, if without the state, from the point where he or she crosses the state boundary to the place of attendance, and returning by the usually traveled route between such points.:

AB75-ASA1, s. 3235 Section 3235. 814.67 (1) (c) 1. of the statutes is created to read:

AB75-ASA1,1652,18 814.67 (1) (c) 1. For witnesses, the rate of 20 cents per mile.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3236 Section 3236. 814.67 (1) (c) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

AB75-ASA1,1652,20 814.67 (1) (c) 2. For interpreters, the mileage rate set under s. 20.916 (8).

AB75-ASA1, s. 3237 Section 3237. 814.75 (22m) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1652,23 814.75 (22m) The supplemental food enforcement surcharge under s. 49.17 253.06 (4) (c).

AB75-ASA1, s. 3238 Section 3238. 814.76 (15m) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1653,2 814.76 (15m) The supplemental food enforcement surcharge under s. 49.17 253.06 (4) (c).

AB75-ASA1, s. 3239 Section 3239. 814.80 (11) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1653,5 814.80 (11) The supplemental food enforcement surcharge under s. 49.17 253.06 (4) (c).

AB75-ASA1, s. 3240 Section 3240. 814.86 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1653,15 814.86 (1) Except for an action for a first violation of s. 23.33 (4c) (a) 2., 30.681 (1) (b) 1., 346.63 (1) (b), or 350.101 (1) (b), if the person who committed the violation had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more but less than 0.1 at the time of the violation, or for a violation under s. 343.51 (1m) (b) or a safety belt use violation under s. 347.48 (2m), the clerk of circuit court shall charge and collect a $12 $21.50 justice information system surcharge from any person, including any governmental unit, as defined in s. 108.02 (17), paying a fee under s. 814.61 (1) (a), (3), or (8) (am), 814.62 (1), (2), or (3) (a) or (b), or 814.63 (1). The justice information system surcharge is in addition to the surcharge listed in sub. (1m).

AB75-ASA1, s. 3241 Section 3241. 823.08 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1653,17 823.08 (2) (b) "Agricultural use" has the meaning given in s. 91.01 (1) (2).

AB75-ASA1, s. 3242 Section 3242. 846.04 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1654,5 846.04 (1) The plaintiff may, in the complaint, demand judgment for any deficiency that may remain due the plaintiff after sale of the mortgaged premises against every party who is personally liable for the debt secured by the mortgage. Judgment may be rendered for any deficiency remaining after applying the proceeds of sale to the amount due. The judgment for deficiency shall be ordered in the original judgment and separately rendered against the party liable on or after the confirmation of sale. The judgment for deficiency shall be entered in the judgment and lien docket and, except as provided in subs. (2) and (3), enforced as in other cases. A mortgage foreclosure deficiency judgment entered on or after October 14, 1997, on property devoted primarily to under agricultural use, as defined in s. 91.01 (5), on and after October 14, 1997, (2), for at least 12 consecutive months during the preceding 36-month period shall be recorded as an agriculture judgment.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3243 Section 3243. 846.04 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1654,12 846.04 (2) Except as provided in sub. (3), if a mortgage foreclosure deficiency judgment is entered on property devoted primarily to under agricultural use, as defined in s. 91.01 (5), (2), for at least 12 consecutive months during the preceding 36-month period, an action on the deficiency judgment shall be commenced within 10 years after the date on which the mortgage foreclosure deficiency judgment is entered or be barred.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3244 Section 3244. 851.08 of the statutes is created to read:

AB75-ASA1,1654,15 851.08 Domestic partner. "Domestic partner" has the meaning given in s. 770.01 (1) and "domestic partnership" has the meaning given in s. 770.01 (2).

AB75-ASA1, s. 3245 Section 3245. 851.17 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1654,22 851.17 Net estate. "Net estate" means all property subject to administration less the property selected by the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner under s. 861.33, the allowances made by the court under ss. 861.31, 861.35 and 861.41 except as those allowances are charged by the court against the intestate share of the recipient, administration, funeral and burial expenses, the amount of claims paid and federal and state estate taxes payable out of such property.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3246 Section 3246. 851.295 of the statutes is created to read:

AB75-ASA1,1655,3 851.295 Surviving domestic partner. "Surviving domestic partner" means a person who was in a domestic partnership under ch. 770 with the decedent, at the time of the decedent's death.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3247 Section 3247. 852.01 (1) (a) (intro.), 1. and 2. (intro.) and b., (b), (c), (d) and (f) (intro.) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1655,6 852.01 (1) (a) (intro.) To the spouse or domestic partner:

AB75-ASA1,1655,9 1. If there are no surviving issue of the decedent, or if the surviving issue are all issue of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner and the decedent, the entire estate.

AB75-ASA1,1655,12 2. (intro.) If there are surviving issue one or more of whom are not issue of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner, one-half of decedent's property other than the following property:

AB75-ASA1,1655,14 b. The decedent's interest in property held equally and exclusively with the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner as tenants in common.

AB75-ASA1,1655,17 (b) To the issue, per stirpes, the share of the estate not passing to the spouse or surviving domestic partner, under par. (a), or the entire estate if there is no surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.

AB75-ASA1,1655,19 (c) If there is no surviving spouse, surviving domestic partner, or issue, to the parents.

AB75-ASA1,1655,21 (d) If there is no surviving spouse, surviving domestic partner, issue, or parent, to the brothers and sisters and the issue of any deceased brother or sister per stirpes.

AB75-ASA1,1655,23 (f) (intro.) If there is no surviving spouse, surviving domestic partner, issue, parent, or issue of a parent, to the grandparents and their issue as follows:

AB75-ASA1, s. 3248 Section 3248. 852.09 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1656,4 852.09 Assignment of home to surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner. If the intestate estate includes an interest in a home, assignment of that interest to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner is governed by s. 861.21.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3249 Section 3249. 853.11 (2m) and (3) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1656,9 853.11 (2m) Premarital or predomestic partnership will. Entitlements of a surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner under a decedent's will that was executed before marriage to the surviving spouse or before recording of the domestic partnership under ch. 770 are governed by s. 853.12.

AB75-ASA1,1656,11 (3) Transfer to former spouse or former domestic partner. A transfer under a will to a former spouse or former domestic partner is governed by s. 854.15.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3250 Section 3250. 853.12 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1656,13 853.12 (title) Premarital will or predomestic partnership will.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3251 Section 3251. 853.12 (1), (2) (intro.) and (a), (3) (a) and (b) and (4) (a) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1656,20 853.12 (1) Entitlement of surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner. Subject to sub. (3), if the testator married the surviving spouse or recorded a domestic partnership under ch. 770 with the surviving domestic partner after the testator executed his or her will, the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner is entitled to a share of the probate estate.

AB75-ASA1,1656,25 (2) Value of share. (intro.) The value of the share under sub. (1) is the value of the share that the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner would have received had the testator died with an intestate estate equal to the value of the testator's net estate, but the value of the net estate shall first be reduced by the value of all of the following:

AB75-ASA1,1657,4 (a) All devises to or for the benefit of the testator's children who were born before the marriage to the surviving spouse or the domestic partnership with the surviving domestic partner and who are not also the children of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.

AB75-ASA1,1657,7 (3) (a) It appears from the will or other evidence that the will was made in contemplation of the testator's marriage to the surviving spouse or domestic partnership with the surviving domestic partner.

AB75-ASA1,1657,11 (b) It appears from the will or other evidence that the will is intended to be effective notwithstanding any subsequent marriage or domestic partnership, or there is sufficient evidence that the testator considered revising the will after marriage or domestic partnership but decided not to.

AB75-ASA1,1657,13 (4) (a) Amounts received by the surviving spouse under s. 861.02 and devises made by will to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner are applied first.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3252 Section 3252. 854.15 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1657,16 854.15 (title) Revocation of provisions in favor of former spouse or former domestic partner.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3253 Section 3253. 854.15 (1) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 854.15 (1) (b) (intro.) and amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1657,20 854.15 (1) (b) (intro.) "Divorce, annulment or similar event" means any of the following:

AB75-ASA1,1657,22 1. A divorce, any annulment, or any other event or proceeding that would exclude a spouse as a surviving spouse under s. 851.30.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3254 Section 3254. 854.15 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

AB75-ASA1,1658,3 854.15 (1) (b) 2. A termination of a domestic partnership or other event or proceeding that would exclude a person as a surviving domestic partner under s. 851.295.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3255 Section 3255. 854.15 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1658,7 854.15 (1) (c) "Former spouse" means a person whose marriage to the decedent or domestic partnership with the decedent has been the subject of a divorce, annulment or similar event.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3256 Section 3256. 854.15 (5) (am) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1658,10 854.15 (5) (am) 5. The decedent and the former spouse have remarried or entered into a new domestic partnership before the death of the decedent.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3257 Section 3257. 859.25 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1658,13 859.25 (1) (g) Property assigned to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner under s. 861.41.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3258 Section 3258. 861.21 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1658,16 861.21 (title) Assignment of home to surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3259 Section 3259. 861.21 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1659,2 861.21 (1) (b) "Home" means any dwelling in which the decedent had an interest and that at the time of the decedent's death the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner occupies or intends to occupy. If there are several such dwellings, any one may be designated by the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner. "Home" includes a house, a mobile home, a manufactured home, a duplex or multiple apartment building one unit of which is occupied by the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner and a building used in part for a dwelling and in part for commercial or business purposes. "Home" includes all of the surrounding land, unless the court sets off part of the land as severable from the remaining land under sub. (5).

AB75-ASA1, s. 3260 Section 3260. 861.21 (2), (4) and (5) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1659,13 861.21 (2) Decedent's property interest in home. Subject to subs. (4) and (5), if a married decedent or decedent in a domestic partnership has a property interest in a home, the decedent's entire interest in the home shall be assigned to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner if the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner petitions the court requesting such a distribution and if a governing instrument does not provide a specific transfer of the decedent's interest in the home to someone other than the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner. The surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner shall file the petition within 6 months after the decedent's death, unless the court extends the time for filing.

AB75-ASA1,1659,23 (4) Payment by surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner. The court shall assign the interest in the home under sub. (2) to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner upon payment of the value of the decedent's interest in the home that does not pass to the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner under intestacy or under a governing instrument. Payment shall be made to the fiduciary holding title to the interest. The surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner may use assets due him or her from the fiduciary to satisfy all or part of the payment in kind. Unless the court extends the time, the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner shall have one year from the decedent's death to pay the value of the assigned interest.

AB75-ASA1,1660,5 (5) Severance of home from surrounding land. On petition of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner or of any interested person that part of the land is not necessary for dwelling purposes and that it would be inappropriate to assign all of the surrounding land as the home under sub. (2), the court may set off for the home as much of the land as is necessary for a dwelling. In determining how much land should be set off, the court shall take into account the use and marketability of the parcels set off as the home and the remaining land.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3261 Section 3261. 861.31 (1m), (2) and (4) (intro.) and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1660,14 861.31 (1m) The court may, without notice or on such notice as the court directs, order payment by the personal representative or special administrator of an allowance as the court determines necessary or appropriate for the support of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner and any minor children of the decedent during the administration of the estate. The court shall consider the size of the probate estate, other resources available for support, the existing standard of living, and any other factors it considers relevant.

AB75-ASA1,1660,21 (2) The court may order that an allowance be made to the spouse or surviving domestic partner for support of the spouse or surviving domestic partner and any minor children of the decedent, or that separate allowances be made to the spouse or surviving domestic partner and to the minor children of the decedent or their guardian, if any, if the court finds separate allowances advisable. If there is no surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner, the court may order that an allowance be made to the minor children of the decedent or to their guardian, if any.

AB75-ASA1,1661,3 (4) (intro.) The court may order that the allowance be charged against income or principal, either as an advance or otherwise, but the court may not order that an allowance for support of minor children of the decedent be charged against the income or principal interest of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner. The court may order that the allowance for support of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner, not including any allowance for support of minor children of the decedent, be applied in satisfaction of any of the following:

AB75-ASA1,1661,5 (b) Any right of the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner to elect under s. 861.02.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3262 Section 3262. 861.33 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1661,8 861.33 (title) Selection of personalty by surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner.

AB75-ASA1, s. 3263 Section 3263. 861.33 (1) (a) (intro.) and 1. and (b) of the statutes are amended to read:

AB75-ASA1,1661,14 861.33 (1) (a) (intro.) Subject to this section, in addition to all allowances and distributions, the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner may file with the court a written selection of the following personal property, which shall then be transferred to the spouse or domestic partner by the personal representative:

AB75-ASA1,1661,16 1. Wearing apparel and jewelry held for personal use by the decedent or the surviving spouse or surviving domestic partner;