2026-01-282025/26:CU12 · p.27CUCivil law & housing

Proposals on custody and custody transfer in case of domestic violence

Expanded grounds for transferring custody in cases of domestic violence

What's at stake: Children living with a custodial parent who has subjected them or the other parent to violence risk remaining under that parent's custody if the violence was not lethal. How the grounds for transferring custody are formulated therefore affects how quickly, and in which situations, children at risk can be given a safe custody arrangement.

Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.

What the vote decides

The question is whether the legal grounds for transferring custody away from a violent parent should be expanded to more clearly cover cases of serious violence other than one parent killing the other, or whether the current rules should remain unchanged.

Yes Yes — the committee proposal

The committee rejects the motions calling for broader grounds for transferring custody. The committee refers to its previous positions and to the fact that the legislation has already been reviewed and tightened in recent years, and is not prepared to proceed with further changes at this time.

No No — the reservations

Reservation 29 (S)

The reservation (S) calls for the rules on transferring custody to be reviewed so that they more clearly cover more situations involving violence, not only cases where one parent has killed the other. The reasoning is that children today are relatively unprotected from violent custodians as long as the violence is not lethal, and that prolonged or repeated, latent violence should also be able to form grounds for transferring custody, without requiring that the other parent lose their life.

Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.

V–

S–

MP–

C–

L–

KD–

M–

SD–

YesNoAbstainAbsent

What do the votes mean here?

Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).

No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 29 by S.

Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.

The plan's stance / Actual vote

	AI	Vote
V	–	Yes 19/0/0/3
Sown reservation	–	No 0/92/0/14
MP	–	Yes 16/0/0/2
C	–	Abstain 0/0/18/6
L	–	Yes 14/0/0/2
KD	–	Yes 17/0/0/2
M	–	Yes 59/0/0/9
SD	–	Yes 58/0/0/13

Committee proposal

The Riksdag rejects the motions 2025/26:3188 by Martina Johansson et al. (C) claim 24 and 2025/26:3646 by Joakim Järrebring et al. (S) claims 10 and 11.

Original (Swedish)

Riksdagen avslår motionerna 2025/26:3188 av Martina Johansson m.fl. (C) yrkande 24 och 2025/26:3646 av Joakim Järrebring m.fl. (S) yrkandena 10 och 11.

Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected approximately 140 proposals on family law in motions from the general motion period 2025. The proposals concern, among other things, reflection time for divorce, property division, legal assistance for children, questions about custody, residence and visitation in case of domestic violence, the system of guardians, administrators, and certain questions about name changes. The Riksdag refers, among other things, to ongoing work and the committee's previous positions.

Counter-proposals

The counter-proposal wants to conduct a comprehensive review of systemic errors in family law to address how violence is facilitated in the current legislation. (S) — Reservation 29

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Sources and documents

The committee report on riksdagen.se (2025/26:CU12)
Committee report full text (HD01CU12)
Per-MP voting data (API)
Case status (API)

Documents under consideration

Motion 2025/26:1068 — Stärkt skydd för kvinnor och barn som lämnar våldsamma män av Carina Ödebrink m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1072 — Barns rätt till sina föräldrar av Daniel Vencu Velasquez Castro (S)
Motion 2025/26:11 — Reform av namnlagen av Robert Stenkvist (SD)
Motion 2025/26:1103 — Arvode till vigselförrättare av Ulrika Heie (C)
Motion 2025/26:115 — Undantag från samtyckeskravet i namnlagen av Angelica Lundberg (SD)
Motion 2025/26:118 — Effektivare bodelningsprocess av Angelica Lundberg (SD)
Motion 2025/26:1315 — Ersättningsnivån för borgerliga vigselförrättare av Per-Arne Håkansson (S)
Motion 2025/26:1328 — Vårdnadstvister och konsekvenser av Runar Filper (SD)
Motion 2025/26:1523 — Digitala testamenten - säkerställ skydd för äldre och utsatta mot otillbörlig påverkan av Emma Ahlström Köster (M)
Motion 2025/26:1650 — Byte av efternamn på barn vid ensam vårdnad och skyddad identitet av Ludvig Ceimertz (M)
Motion 2025/26:1788 — Betänketiden för äktenskapsskillnad av Boriana Åberg (M)
Motion 2025/26:1816 — Barnets bästa i vårdnadsmål där en förälder dömts för sexualbrott av Aylin Nouri (S)
Motion 2025/26:183 — Införande av en lag om digitalt arv av Victoria Tiblom (SD)
Motion 2025/26:1993 — Blodprov för föräldratest av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:2068 — Likvärdig myndighetsutövning vid borgerlig vigsel av Kerstin Lundgren (C)
Motion 2025/26:2148 — Skyndsam hantering vid skilsmässa av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:2264 — Förenklat regelverk för ensam förälder efter insemination av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:2318 — Förenklad adoption av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:2320 — Begränsning för kriminella att byta namn av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:245 — Förenkling av ekonomiska och juridiska processer för efterlevande av Johnny Svedin (SD)

Source: The Swedish Parliament