According to Florida law, the evidence needed for child custody in a dissolution of marriage proceedings includes 1) the financial positions of the parents, 2) the needs of the child and, most importantly, 3) the child’s welfare and best interests: Broad...
According to Florida statutory law, the court takes into account the parents’ wishes, considers giving one parent final say over certain aspects of the child, or divides duties between the parents, depending on what’s in the best interests of the child....
According to Florida statutory law, shared parental responsibility means: “Shared parental responsibility” means a court-ordered relationship in which both parents retain full parental rights and responsibilities with respect to their child and in which both parents...
According to Florida law, transfer of child custody from father to mother was not an appropriate sanction for father’s contempt in failing to deliver children for visitation with mother, where there was no finding that a change in custody was in best interests...
According to Florida case law, there is no law that requires a trial court to hold a person in contempt for violating a time-sharing parenting plan, and a trial court does not abuse its discretion simply by declining to do so: Under Florida law, “[t]here is nothing...
According to Florida law, a two-year-old written warning by the trial court to a mother regarding the potential loss of residential custody if she continued to deny the father his post-dissolution visitation rights is deemed insufficient to notify the mother that a...
