As a single or divorced parent, you likely cope with a lot of financial stress as the head of your own household. If you live paycheck to paycheck like many parents, child support can be an essential part of your monthly budget. Your ex contributes a percentage of...
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What is the process for a Florida custody modification?
Creating a parenting plan or custody order in accordance with Florida law takes time in courts or negotiation between the parents. Your parenting plan provides instructions regarding time-sharing arrangements and helps you share the responsibilities of parenting more...
Are your children struggling with the divorce?
No two divorces are exactly the same, and adult partners may cope differently. Both parties may be very upset, or the sadness may be one-sided. Whatever the situation is between former partners, circumstances become different when children are involved. In general,...
When can child support be modified in Florida?
When a relationship that involves children ends in a divorce or a separation, one of the issues the court will issue a ruling on is child support. This is a payment made by one parent to the other – most often the non-custodial parent to the custodial parent – for...
The simple steps for establishing paternity in Florida
There are all kinds of reasons why a man may not have established paternity when his child was first born. He may have been away on military service, or he might have been unsure about whether the child was his or not. It’s also possible that a man may not have known...
Losing your job likely means you need to modify your support
When the Florida courts initially order child support, they look carefully at your household circumstances and your financial situation. Everything from your income to the custody sharing arrangements you have with your ex will influence your child support order. The...
The extra step unmarried dads must take to share custody
Being a father is a full-time job that no one pays you to do or thanks you for performing. You do it because you love your child and you understand that you have a legal responsibility to them. Showing up for your kid can be more difficult when you don't have a legal...
With joint custody, can you travel out of state with your child?
Vacations or out-of-state travel with a child under joint custody can become somewhat tricky for the co-parents. After a divorce, it may not be so straightforward just to pick the kids and travel wherever you wish. While Florida laws do not deny a parent permission to...
How will time-sharing work over the holidays after divorce?
When you divorce while you still have children at home, you and your ex have to figure out how to share parenting time. Time-sharing is the legal term in Florida for shared custody arrangements. Typically, time-sharing requires that parents share responsibility for...
Sharing custody of a breastfeeding baby
While many individuals plan to conceive a child, pregnancies come as a surprise for others. In the case of the latter, prospective parents often try to make a troubled marriage work leading up to their child's birth. Things don't always turn out as they'd hope, and...