This case arises from new legislation enacted by the General Assembly following this Court’s 2009 decision in Smith v. Gordon (“Smith I ”),2 which involved the same dispute between the same parties. Respondent-below appellant, Lynn M. Smith (“Smith”), appeals from an April 23, 2010 Family Court order awarding joint custody of ANS, a minor child, to petitioner-below appellee, Carol M. Guest (“Guest”). The Family Court granted custody to Guest based on the new legislation enacted after Smith I — Senate Bill No. 84 (“SB 84”), codified at 13 Del. C. § 8-201.3 On appeal, Smith seeks reversal of the Family Court’s judgment, claiming that SB 84 violates the United States and Delaware Constitutions, and that res judicata, bars Guest’s custody petition. Smith further claims that even if SB 84 is constitutional, the Family Court legally erred by applying that statute retroactively, and by considering facts that occurred before SB 84 was enacted. For the reasons next discussed, we conclude that SB 84 is constitutional, that the Fami-*924Iy Court committed no legal error, and affirm its judgment.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Ever since their relationship ended in May 2004, Smith and Guest have battled for custody over ANS, who is Smith’s adopted child.4 The facts underlying the parties’ continued custody dispute are essentially those as recited in our Smith I opinion.5
Under the Delaware Uniform Parentage Act (“DUPA”),6 if a petitioner can establish that she or he has a legal parent-child relationship with a minor child, as defined by 13 Del. C. § 8-201, that petitioner is a legal “parent” who is entitled to seek custody of the child under 13 Del. C. § 721(a).7 In Smith I, the Family Court concluded that Guest was not a legal “parent” under Section 8-201, “because she could not establish a legal mother-child relationship [since] she was neither the biological or adoptive mother.”8 The Family Court found, however, that Guest had standing to petition for joint custody with Smith because Guest claimed to be a defacto parent of ANS.9
This Court reversed, holding that as a matter of law, a de facto parent did not have standing as a “parent” to file a custody petition.10 In Smith I, we noted that when the Delaware General Assembly adopted DUPA, it did not include a de facto parent within the statutory definition of “parent” because Section 8-201 did not expressly recognize de facto parent-child relationships.11 Moreover, we held that that omission was “not inadvertent,” and that “[w]here the General Assembly enacts a comprehensive statutory scheme that reflects a public policy unambiguously to define the parent-child relationship as a legal relationship, any modifications in that policy must be made by the legislature.”12
After we decided Smith I, the Delaware General Assembly enacted Senate Bill 84 (“SB 84”), which amended DUPA to include a defacto parent within the statutory definition of “parent,” thereby expressly recognizing de facto parent-child relationships.13 New Section 5 of SB 84 provided that the amendments to DUPA would apply retroactively,14 and new Section 6 provided that “[n]o Court decision based upon a finding that Delaware does not recognize de facto parent status shall have collateral estoppel or res judicata effect.”15 Although Sections 5 and 6 were not codified in the Delaware Code, both parties agree (and we hold) that those provisions are legally a part of the amended statute.
*925On July 6, 2009, the day that SB 84 was enacted into law, Guest filed a new petition for custody in Family Court. Smith moved to dismiss the petition on the basis that SB 84 was unconstitutional, and that Guest’s new custody petition was barred by res judicata. The Family Court denied Smith’s motion, finding that SB 84 did not violate either the United States or the Delaware Constitution, and that res judi-cata was inapplicable.16 In deciding the constitutionality of SB 84, the court determined that it did not need to consider Sections 5 and 6 of SB 84, because those Sections had not been codified.17 Therefore, the Family Court considered only Sections 1-3 (which amended the definition of “parent-child relationship” in 18 Del. C. § 8-201) and found that those Sections were constitutional.18
Thereafter, Smith moved in limine to exclude certain evidence and testimony regarding events that occurred before July 6, 2009. Smith argued that because SB 84 was not “retroactive,” only events that post-dated SB 84’s enactment could be considered. Alternatively, Smith moved in limine to exclude evidence and testimony regarding acts that occurred after May 2004, arguing that any interactions between Guest and ANS after that date had occurred pursuant to court orders that were “vacated” by our Smith I decision. The Family Court denied both in limine motions, concluding that although SB 84 had no (codified) retroactivity clause, the Sections that were codified demonstrated a legislative intent that the court should consider evidence antedating SB 84’s enactment.19
In February 2010, the Family Court held a two-day hearing on Guest’s custody petition. On April 23, 2010, that court entered an order and judgment determining that Guest was a de facto parent and awarding her joint legal and physical custody of ANS with Smith.20 Smith appeals from that judgment.
ANALYSIS
On appeal, Smith claims that thé Family Court reversibly erred in granting Guest joint custody of ANS on three grounds. First, she challenges the constitutionality of SB 84. Second, she argues that the Family Court erroneously concluded that res judicata did not bar Guest’s custody petition. Third, Smith contends that even if SB 84 is constitutional, the Family Court erred by applying Section 8-201 “retroactively.” We consider those claims in that sequence.
I. Is SB 84 Unconstitutional?
Smith first argues that SB 84 is unconstitutional under the United States and the Delaware Constitution. Her Delaware constitutional argument is that Sections 5 and 6 of SB 84 violate the Separation of Powers Doctrine, and alternatively, they violate the “single-subject” requirement. Her Federal constitutional claim is that SB 84 violates the Due Process and *926Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. This Court reviews claims involving the constitutionality of a statute de novo. 21
A. Are Sections 5 and 6 of SB 8U Effective Law?
As a predicate matter, this Court must first determine whether (uncodified) Sections 5 and 6 of SB 84 constitute operative Delaware law. Both Smith and Guest agree that they do. The Family Court held that in interpreting SB 84, it was not required to consider Sections 5 and 6, because although those Sections were included in the Historical and Statutory Notes of the final statute, they were not included in the codified text.22
In so ruling, the Family Court erred. The General Assembly enacted SB 84 in its entirety, not just Sections 1-4.23 That the Revisors (the Delaware Code’s editors)24 decided not to codify Sections 5 and 6 of SB 84 does not render those sections legally nugatory or ineffective. The Code expressly states that “the Re-visors shall not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any act of the General Assembly. ...”25 One possible explanation for their failure to codify is that the Revisors believed Sections 5 and 6 to be “construction clauses”26 whose omission was required by 1 Del. C. § 211(b).27 But, even if that were the case, Sections 5 and 6 cannot be disregarded in interpreting SB 84, because to do so would ignore the General Assembly’s express intent.28
In Elliott v. Blue Cross and, Blue Shield of Delaware, this Court held that “the Revisors’ failure to incorporate [an] amendment into the 1974 revised Code does not void it. Having been duly passed by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor, the amendment is law.”29 Although Sections 5 and 6 of SB 84 did not “amend” any particular section of the Code, the Elliott rationale applies here with equal force. Once enacted by the legislature and signed by the Governor, the entirety of the bill becomes effective Delaware law.
Having determined that the entirety of the enacted bill, including Sections 5 and 6, must be considered in interpreting SB 84, we turn to the merits of Smith’s constitutionality claims.
*927B. Does SB 84 Violate The Separation of Powers Doctrine ?
Smith first challenges SB 84 on the ground that it violates the constitutionally-mandated separation of powers between the judicial and the legislative branches, by overturning our decision in Smith I. Smith points out that Section 5 makes the new definition of legal “parent” retroactive, and that Section 6 prohibits a court from holding that Smith I has preclusive effect in determining whether Guest is a legal “parent” of ANS. Read together, Smith contends, those sections violate Delaware’s separation of powers requirement, because a legislature cannot dictate how a court should apply the doctrines of collateral estoppel and res judicata when determining the effect of court judgments that have become final.
Smith analogizes this case to Evans v. State, where this Court determined that House Bill No. 31 (“HB 31”) was unconstitutional because it specifically recited that “the decision of the Delaware Supreme Court in the case of Evans v. State, 2004 WL 2743546 (Del.Supr.), is null and void.”30 In Evans, we held that it was “constitutionally impermissible” for legislation to “require[ ] its own [retroactive] application in a case already adjudicated [and] reverse a determination once made, in a particular case.”31 Therefore, we found that the legislation challenged in Evans violated Article IV, §§ 1 and 11 of the Delaware Constitution, because it purported “to exercise judicial power in a specific case.”32
Smith’s argument is unpersuasive, for three reasons. First, it is well-recognized that the legislature may limit or bar the application of judge-made common law,33 including preclusion doctrines such as collateral estoppel and res judicata. 34 * Legislation of that kind does not amount to the General Assembly exercising “judicial power,” nor does it raise a separation of powers issue.35
*928Second, Evans is materially distinguishable from this case. In Evans, the General Assembly explicitly sought to render “null and void” this Court’s final judgment in a prior case. Indeed, HB 31 expressly referenced the previous case name and citation in its text.36 In the case of SB 84, that did not occur. Unlike HB 31, Section 6 of SB 84 does not identify a specific case, either by case name or citation.37 Further, the Senate debates on SB 84 show that that bill was introduced specifically in response to this Court’s implicit invitation in Smith I, wherein we observed that “[providing relief in such situations [like Guest’s] is a public policy decision for the General Assembly to make.”38 Unlike what occurred in Evans, SB 84 was not enacted to overrule retroactively our decision in Smith I.
Third, SB 84, as applied to this case, does not retroactively “reverse” our Smith I decision or render it “null and void.” Smith I held that Guest lacked standing to petition for custody, because she was not a “parent” within the meaning of the then-applicable statutory definition.39 That determination was not predicated upon, nor did this Court address, the merits of whether Guest was a de facto parent or had custody rights to ANS. Smith I addressed only the issue of standing.
A litigant’s standing to sue (or lack thereof) may change over time.40 Here, the General Assembly enlarged the categories of statutorily-recognized parent-child relationships. That change in the statutory definition of “parent,” in turn, enlarged the categories of litigants with standing to petition for custody.41 Under the newly enacted version of 13 Del. C. § 8-201 (as amended by SB 84), de facto parents, such as Guest, are now “parents” who have standing to petition for child custody under 13 Del. C. § 721(a). SB 84 did not change the outcome of our decision in Smith I, however, because Smith I interpreted an earlier version of the law. That is, Guest and other de facto parents would still lack standing if they were to petition for custody under the pre-amendment version of Section 8-201, since the legal definition of “parent” at that time did not include a defacto parent.42 Because SB 84 did not “reverse” or render “null and void” our decision in Smith I, the separation of powers rationale of Evans v. State is inapplicable.
C. Does SB 8k Violate the “Single-Subject” Provision Of The Delaware Constitution?
Smith next claims that SB 84 is invalid because it violates the single-subject requirement of the Delaware Constitution. This argument, which overlaps somewhat with Smith’s separation of powers claim, runs as follows: Sections 1-4 of *929SB 84 purport to address the legal definition of “parent.” Sections 5 and 6, however, are a legislative effort to exercise fundamental judicial powers — which is a “separate subject” under Evans. Combining those two separate subjects into one statute, therefore, violates the single-subject requirement.
Article II, section 16 of the Delaware Constitution provides that “[n]o bill or joint resolution, except bills appropriating money for public purposes, shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its title.”43 As explained in Evans, “[t]he single-subject and title provisions in Article II, § 16 are intended to assure sufficient notice that legislation, the content of which was inadequately brought to the public attention, or so-called sleeper legislation does not slip through the General Assembly.”44 That is, article II, section 16 is intended to prevent the introduction in the legislature of a bill with a seemingly “harmless title[],” but by the time it is enacted by both legislative chambers, it has collected such numerous amendments that its ultimate subject matter has changed entirely from what it was initially.45 For that reason, a bill that contains multiple subjects or whose title would “trap the unwary into inaction” violates the Delaware Constitution.46
In Evans, we pointed out that HB 31 “graphically illustrates the dangers of an uninformed legislative vote where the title of [the] bill is inadequate.”47 The first part of HB 31 expressed a legislative intent to declare “null and void” this Court’s earlier decision in Evans v. State,48 whereas in the second part, the General Assembly established itself as “the ultimate arbiter of the intent, meaning, and construction of its laws.”49 Further, it required judicial officers to “strictly interpret or construe legislative intent” and to “use the utmost restraint in interpreting or construing the laws of this State.”50 The title of HB 31, however, gave no notice that it would impact “at least sixty other statutes in which the General Assembly stated that those statutes must be liberally or broadly construed to accomplish the General Assembly’s intent.”51 We held, for those reasons, that HB 31 unconstitutionally contained two separate and distinct subjects of legislation — the first being to *930“null[ify] and void” an earlier decision of this Court, and the second being “to confer upon the General Assembly fundamental judicial powers.”52
The legislation involved in this case differs markedly from that invalidated in Evans. Unlike HB 31, SB 84 does not address multiple subjects. SB 84’s title reads “AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 13 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PARENTS.”53 Sections 1-3 add a new subsection to 13 Del. C. § 8-201 that includes de facto parent status as an additional type of legal parent-child relationship. Section 4 amends the statutory definition of “parent” in 13 Del. C. § 2302 to include a de facto parent.54 Section 5 states that “[t]he provisions of this Act shall have retroactive effect,” and Section 6 provides that “[n]o Court decision based upon a finding that Delaware does not recognize de facto parent status shall have collateral estoppel or res judicata effect.” These latter two Sections fall within the scope of the title’s stated subject matter, because they relate to defining, interpreting, and construing defacto parenthood.
Nor do Sections 5 and 6 of SB 84 introduce the separate subject of “establishing] prospective standards for the judicial interpretation and application of Delaware laws,” as occurred in Evans. 55 Neither provision would affect “at least sixty other statutes,” and neither purports “to confer upon the General Assembly fundamental judicial powers” or to declare the General Assembly as “the ultimate arbiter of the intent, meaning, and construction” of Delaware law. Section 6 merely specifies the circumstances where the judicial doctrines of collateral estoppel and res judicata will not apply. Those circumstances all relate to de facto parenthood.56 In short, Sections 5 and 6 of SB 84 deal only with the one subject identified in SB 84’s title— “parents,” and more specifically, de facto parenthood.
D. Does SB 8U Violate The Fourteenth Amendment?
Smith’s final constitutional claim is that SB 84 violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
1. Due Process Argument
Smith first argues that the Family Court violated her due process rights by failing to consider whether her rights as ANS’s sole parent were being unconstitutionally infringed, before determining whether Guest had any parental rights at all. Smith relies on Troxel v. Granville, 57 where the United States Supreme Court held that a “nonparent” visitation statute violated a parent’s due process rights because it “effectively permit[ted] any third party seeking visitation to subject any decision by a parent concerning visitation of the parent’s children to state-court review.” 58 Smith contends that SB 84 similarly enables a nonparent, such as Guest, to petition the Family Court for visitation rights without requiring the Court to defer to Smith’s decision, as ANS’s sole parent, *931that that visitation would not be in ANS’s best interests.
Troxel does not control these facts. The issue here is not whether the Family Court has infringed Smith’s fundamental parental right to control who has access to ANS by awarding Guest co-equal parental status. Rather, the issue is whether Guest is a legal “parent” of ANS who would also have parental rights to ANS — rights that are co-equal to Smith’s. This is not a case, like Troxel, where a third party having no claim to a parent-child relationship (e.g., the child’s grandparents) seeks visitation rights.59 Guest is not “any third party.” Rather, she is a (claimed) de facto parent who (if her claim is established, as the Family Court found it was60) would also be a legal “parent” of ANS. Because Guest, as a legal parent, would have a coequal “fundamental parental interest” in raising ANS, allowing Guest to pursue that interest through a legally-recognized channel cannot unconstitutionally infringe Smith’s due process rights. In short, Smith’s due process claim fails for lack of a valid premise.
Our holding is supported by other state court decisions.61 For example, in In re Parentage of L.B.f62 the Washington Supreme Court addressed a situation nearly identical to the case at bar. There, the court considered whether the petitioner had standing to petition for custody of a minor child conceived through artificial insemination during the petitioner’s 12-year same-sex relationship with the child’s biological mother.63 The biological mother argued that allowing the petitioner to seek custody of the minor child would infringe the biological mother’s fundamental parental interests under Troxel.64’’ The Washington Supreme Court held it would not, because de facto parents were “in legal parity” with biological and adoptive parents.65 If the petitioner could establish de facto parentage, then the petitioner and the biological mother “would both have a fundamental liberty interest in the care, *932custody, and control of [the child].”66 In those circumstances, there could be no due process violation.67
Some courts have concluded that under the common law, de facto parentage does not confer standing to petition for custody or visitation of a minor child.68 Those cases are inapposite, however, because the right conferred here was created legislatively, not judicially. The Delaware General'Assembly has expressly decreed that de facto parents are legal “parents” who have standing to petition for custody.69 Moreover, none of those cases addresses the legal question presented here — whether a law permitting a de facto parent to seek custody of a minor child violates the due process rights of the child’s other legal parent.70 As discussed above, we conclude that it does not.
2. Equal Protection Argument
Smith next claims that SB 84 violates the Equal Protection Clause, because it constitutes “special legislation,” specifically directed at her, that changes the result in Smith I. This argument essentially restates, albeit in a different form, Smith’s earlier claim that Sections 5 and 6 of SB 84 seek to nullify this Court’s Smith I decision.71 More specifically, Smith argues that because those Sections undermine the finality of, and substantively overturn, Smith I, SB 84 “draw[s] a line between [Smith] and all others who have prevailed in a final judicial determination [by] purporting to render Smith I a nullity, but permitting all other Supreme Court decisions to stand.”
To succeed on an equal protection claim under a “class of one” theory, the plaintiff must show that: (1) there are other similarly-situated people who were treated differently, and (2) there is no rational basis for that disparate treatment.72 To prevail on the first prong, the plaintiff must show that the other similarly-situated persons are “prima facie identical in all relevant respects.”73
Smith’s claim fails, because she cannot show disparate treatment as between herself and other similarly-situated persons. That is, SB 84 does not create a “class of one,” as Smith argues. Sections 5 and 6 of SB 84 do not “draw a line between [Smith] and all others who have prevailed in a final judicial determination,” because SB 84 does not reverse or render our decision in Smith I “a nullity.”74
*933Nor does SB 84 amount to “special legislation” that creates an “arbitrary and discriminatory classification,” since it does not specifically name Smith as the person who is to benefit (or be harmed).75 To the contrary, SB 84 operates identically and in the same manner upon all persons similarly situated — i.e., all those who are the subject of a judicial decision that de facto parent status is not recognized in Delaware.76 Because SB 84 does not create any classifications among those who have been subjected to that judicial determination, it does not offend the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. * * *
Having determined that SB 84 is valid and constitutional in its entirety, we turn to Smith’s res judicata and “retroactivity” claims.
II. Does Res Judicata or Collateral Estoppel Bar Guest’s Custody Petition?
Smith’s second claim is that the Family Court erred in holding that res judicata did not bar Guest’s July 6, 2009 custody petition. The Family Court concluded that because Smith I was decided on standing grounds and not “on the merits,” res judicata would not apply.77 That conclusion was erroneous, Smith urges, because Smith I, properly read, determined that Guest was not a legal “parent” of ANS. Therefore, res judicata precludes Guest from bringing her renewed custody petition, because this Court has previously (and finally) determined that she is not a legal “parent.”
We review de novo a trial court’s formulation and application of legal principles.78 For Smith I to bar Guest’s renewed custody petition, Smith I must constitute either collateral estoppel or res judicata. Section 6 of SB 84 expressly provides, however, that “[n]o Court decision based upon a finding that Delaware does not recognize de facto parent status shall have collateral estoppel or res judi-cata effect.”79 As earlier discussed, the General Assembly may limit the application of judicial common law through legislation, which is what occurred here.80 *934Therefore, Smith I does not bar Guest’s renewed custody petition under either preclusion doctrine.
But even if the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel were otherwise available, they still would not bar Guest’s renewed custody petition. The bar of res judicata arises where there has been a final judgment on the merits in a first suit involving the same parties, followed by a second suit based on the same cause of action.81 In those circumstances, res judicata bars the second suit. In contrast to res judicata (which precludes a subsequent lawsuit involving same parties based on same cause of action), collateral estoppel precludes a party from relitigat-ing a fact issue that has previously been litigated and decided in a prior action involving that party.82 “A claim will be collaterally estopped only if the same [factual] issue was presented in both cases, the issue was litigated and decided in the first suit, and the determination was essential to the prior judgment.”83
Collateral estoppel does not apply because Smith I never addressed or decided the factual issue presented here— whether Guest is a defacto parent of ANS. In Smith I, all we held was that the statutory definition of legal “parent” — as defined by a prior version of 13 Del. C. § 8-201 — did not include a de facto parent.84 Since by definition Guest was not a legal “parent,” it did not matter, nor was the Court required to decide, whether Guest was a de facto parent of ANS. Thereafter, in SB 84 the General Assembly amended the statutory definition of legal “parent” to encompass de facto parenthood. That amendment made relevant for the first time the merits question of whether Guest is (as she claims to be, and as the Family Court found) a de facto parent of ANS. Because that merits issue was never raised or decided in Smith I, collateral estoppel could not preclude its assertion in this action.
Res judicata is also inapplicable. First, Smith I was not a “final judgment on the merits” that operates to bar Guest’s 2009 custody petition. Guest’s initial 2004 custody petition was brought under the prior statutory definition of legal “parent.” Smith I held only that Guest did not have standing to bring her 2004 custody petition under that provision.85 As we have explained, “[standing is the requisite interest that must exist in the outcome of the litigation at the time the action is commenced.”86 “It is concerned only with the question of who is entitled to mount a legal challenge and not with the merits of the subject matter of the controversy.” 87 Because Smith I did not reach the merits of Guest’s 2004 custody petition, *935 Smith I is not a “final judgment on the merits” that bars Guest’s renewed custody petition under the doctrine of res judica-ta.,88
Second, it is well-recognized that the relitigation of an issue of law between the same parties is not precluded where a new determination is warranted to take into account an intervening change in the applicable law.89 “[Statutory changes that occur after the previous litigation has concluded may justify a new action.”90 By changing the definition of legal “parent,” the General Assembly conferred standing upon all persons who would qualify as de facta parents to petition for custody of a minor child. That statutory change was enacted specifically in response to this Court’s invitation in Smith I. The rationale underlying res judicata, namely “the conclusive resolution of disputes,”91 is not implicated here, because by enacting SB 84, the legislature expressly intended to enable persons such as Guest to petition for custody.92 Before SB 84, Guest had no legal ability to do so.
III. Did The Family Court Err In Applying SB 84 “Retroactively ”?
Smith’s final claim arises from the Family Court’s denial of her two motions in limine. She argues that in determining whether Guest was a de facto parent, the Family Court erroneously applied SB 84 by considering evidence of events that occurred before the bill’s enactment date (July 6, 2009). Smith cites Pullman, Inc. v. Phoenix Steel Corp.93 as support for her argument that when applying a statute, a court may consider only events occurring after that statute’s enactment date.
We normally review a trial court’s decision to exclude evidence for abuse of discretion.94 Smith’s claim, however, requires us to interpret a statute. We review questions of statutory interpretation de novo to determine whether a trial court “erred as a matter of law in formu*936lating and applying legal precepts.”95 Under Delaware law, there must be clear legislative intent for a law to be applied retroactively.96
Smith’s reliance on Pullman is misplaced. In Pullman, the Superior Court concluded that the new statute did not permit consideration of evidence occurring before the statute’s enactment date, because “[b]y its express terms, the new law is not retroactive....”97 The court then concluded that “it was the intent of the legislature to allow all contracts entered into prior to the effective date of the new law to remain unaffected by the [statutory] change....”98
This case differs materially from Pullman. Here, the General Assembly clearly intended for SB 84 to apply to past events. Section 5 of SB 84 expressly provides that SB 84 “shall have retroactive effect.”99 And, apart from Section 5, the codified statutory language itself also supports this conclusion — newly enacted Section 8-201(c) requires a court to look back in time to determine whether a de facto parent-child relationship has been established.100 That codified language evinces a statutory intent for the court to consider pre-enactment events. On that basis, the Family Court properly considered events that occurred before SB 84’s July 6, 2009 enactment date in determining whether Guest is a defacto parent of ANS.
CONCLUSION
We empathize with both parties in having to continue the process of litigating who has custody of ANS. We also are sensitive to the emotional considerations and frustrations that both parties have experienced throughout this process. The General Assembly, however, has made a public policy decision to recognize persons, such as Guest, as legal “parents” who are entitled to seek custody of their minor children. Our judicial role requires us to give full meaning and effect to those legislative changes. For the above reasons, the judgment of the Family Court is affirmed.