Florida Statute 61.13001 governs this issue of parental relocation with a minor child. The Statute defines Relocation as, “a change in the location of the principal residence of a parent or other person from his or her principal place of residence at the time of the last order establishing or…
In Florida all parents must contribute to the support of their minor child(ren). A minor child is defined as a child who has not yet reached majority (18 years old). If however, the child is 18 but is still in high school, than child support can be extended until either…
“Can I move out of state as primary parent of my child?” As a Jacksonville Family Law Attorney, I continually receive this question and just received it again in my email. I have also previously written a blog on it. To briefly answer this question, a parent who has majority…
As a family law attorney in Florida, I often have cases where the parties are not married but they have a child in common. Many people have the false impression that simply because they are on the birth certificate that this acknowledges that they are the father. THIS IS NOT…
Can both parents mutually agree to waive child support payments in a divorce or paternity action? As an Orange Park Child Support Attorney I have come across this topic on several occasions. I always tell clients and potential clients that child support is a right that benefits the child. A…
As a Jacksonville, Florida divorce lawyer and Florida child custody attorney, I have a lot of clients who have not married but have lived together and have a child together. When these relationships come to an end, many times the couple has acquired some property together. The property acquired during…
In Florida, if a parent does not pay their court ordered child support they could likely find themselves behind bars. However, to put a non-paying parent in jail the court must: (1) Find that the parent is willfully failing to pay the ordered child support amounts, (2) make the affirmative…
As a Jacksonville Child Custody Attorney I often see cases where one party will do everything in their power to sabotage the other party. This is the worst thing a parent can do who is involved in a child custody battle. Not only can certain actions put that parent in…
The issue of paternity is something I see all the time as a Jacksonville Child Custody and Child Support Lawyer. In Florida a child does not have a legal father if the mother was not married when the child was born. Legal paternity must be established for the child in…
A concerned Nebraska mother learned the hard way that recording someone without his or her knowledge violates the Federal Wiretap Act. The mother and her father were hit with a combined $120,000 penalty for putting an audio recorder in the mother’s daughter’s teddy bear. An article titled, “Modern Divorce: Wiretapped…