Child Custody During Military Deployment Many Floridian military service members are parents of children for which they have parenting plans. A common question that we receive from those military service members is regarding their rights and obligations regarding child custody during military deployment. More specifically, that servicemember...
Psychological Evaluations in Child Custody Matters Sometimes, unfortunately, a Florida custody battle is justified - one of the parents may have an addiction problem and/or may even be abusive to his/her child. As a result, home studies and psychological evaluations (and sometimes both) are warranted. A home study...
Florida Divorces & Step-Children It's no secret that divorce can be hard on children. Most of the time, those children are coming from families with two biological parents, and a custody and visitation agreement is part of the divorce proceedings. However, when blended families divorce, there...
Petition to Relocate with Children Can I move out of Florida without the other parent's permission? Let's say that you are no longer in a romantic relationship with the other parent of you child. What can you do if you want to move out of Miami,...
Joint Legal Custody & Parental Disagreement We recently received a question from a Floridian mother who could not agree with the father of the children as to whether (or not) they should send their children to public or private schools. The children were offered a scholarship...
Child Custody Violation What can you do if your ex-spouse refuses to let you see your children, in spite of the fact that you have a court ordered parenting plan / time sharing agreement in place? First - do no harm. It is imperative that you...
We frequently receive questions from callers who are thrown off course by the language used by the Florida Family Courts. From time to time, we like to make sure that we are absolutely clear when we define our terms. A common issue that we see...
Shared Parental Responsibility Under Florida Statute 61.046, shared parental responsibility is defined as "a court-ordered relationship in which both parents retain full parental rights and responsibilities with respect to their child and in which both parents confer with each other so that major decisions affecting the...
Jurisdiction in Miami, FL Child Custody Disputes I have a dispute with my child(ren)'s parent with regards to our active Florida Parenting Plan. Where can I file the action? In Miami, Florida divorces involving children, the petitioner must file what is known as a UCCJEA (Uniform Child Custody Judicial...