Category: Divorce & Family Law

In general Florida courts consider a child s current best interests and the family s present circumstances when ordering a parenting plan in a dissolution of marriage or paternity action Prospective based analyses of children s future best interests are to be avoided There is a recent trend however in allowing for timesharing planning and adjustments around future events if an event is reasonably and objectively certain to occur at an identifiable time in the future i e when the use of a crystal ball is not needed

Florida Statutes create the guidelines for establishing the child support obligations from one parent to the other but what happens if the obligated parent doesn t pay the ordered child support

For families experiencing the turmoil that so often comes with divorce or separation co parenting counseling can help

Florida Statutes create the guidelines for establishing court ordered electronic communication between a non timesharing parent and a child

One topic that comes up quite often in developing a Parenting Plan in family law cases is where to do the pick up drop off of the child ren