If you are a divorced parent in Florida, you know the challenges of co-parenting. Even though you have a child custody arrangement that allows for you and your spouse to spend time separately with the kids, there are still a few times a year where you will have to be...
Month: September 2013
Month: September 2013
Florida legislators consider family law reform
Lawmakers in the Florida state legislature are working together to craft a bill that would implement some major changes to state family law. The main focus is to reform spousal support payments, which are currently paid for life or until a former spouse re-marries....
Former partner awarded visitation, no support due
A state Court of Appeals recently ordered a woman to return the child support payments she had received from her former partner pursuant to a previous court order. The payments will be returned because the woman's partner is not a biological or legal parent to the...
Biological dad presses on in custody battle with adoptive parents
In a recent post we discussed the complicated case of Baby Veronica, a child who is now a toddler who is the subject of a custody dispute that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. As we noted in that post, even though the Supreme Court has already...