Category Archives: Timesharing
When do Courts Award Parental Rights to One Party?
In Florida, it is generally presumed that divorced parents will share parenting time, as it is thought that encouraging relationships with both parents is in a child’s best interests. Ideally, this would mean that a child would be able to spend roughly equal amounts of time with both parents. For this reason, granting sole… Read More »
How to Successfully Co-Parent
While ex-spouses may harbor resentment towards each other, it’s usually in a family’s best interests for the parties to put these personal feelings aside and instead focus on the needs of their children. Although co-parenting can be challenging, it is well worth the trouble, as it is one of the best ways to ensure… Read More »
Developing a Parenting Plan
One of the most difficult aspects of many divorces is determining how parenting time and decision making responsibility will be divided. In fact, coming up with a time sharing schedule is not optional in Florida, but is required by law and is referred to as a parenting plan. Parenting plans are binding contracts that… Read More »
Planning a Summer Vacation After Divorce
Vacations are an important way for families to get away from the hustle and bustle of daily life and focus instead on bonding with each other. This continues to be true even after divorce, although planning a vacation may become more difficult, especially if there are scheduling conflicts, which are perhaps the greatest hurdle… Read More »
How Parenting Plans Can Protect Your Child’s Best Interests
In Florida, family law courts will not grant a divorce to a couple with children until a parenting plan has been put in place. These plans, which include arrangements for parenting time and decision making, are intended to encourage frequent and continuing contact between parents and their children, especially after the divorce is finalized…. Read More »
Factors Used to Decide Time-Sharing Arrangements
One of the most difficult issues that divorcing couples with children must face is coming to an agreement on time-sharing responsibilities. When disputes cause out-of-court negotiations to come to a standstill, courts must step in and create a parenting plan. In making this type of important decision, judges are primarily led by what is… Read More »
Is Virtual Visitation Right for My Family?
In prior decades, divorcing couples were limited as to the types of custody arrangements that they could implement. For instance, physical custody was often the only option for parents, which could prove difficult when one party lived out of state. Fortunately, recent advances in technology have made it possible for parents to use virtual… Read More »
Developing a Successful Co-Parenting Relationship
Co-parenting arrangements are considered to be some of the most successful and effective child custody agreements into which a couple can enter, as they provide equal access to the parties’ children. Co-parenting also requires the parties to focus on communication and working together, which can help make a child’s transition to post-divorce life easier…. Read More »
The Role of Parenting Coordinators
Many couples are able to resolve their differences amicably during the divorce process. However, when this is not possible, some couples use alternative dispute resolution, which can help the parties de-escalate their differences. In fact, in many cases, couples with children can ask a parenting coordinator to oversee the proceedings. To learn more about… Read More »
New Parenting Plan Law Goes Into Effect
Last summer, Governor Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 590 into law. This bill, which went into effect on January 1st, allows the Department of Revenue to provide parents with a proposed Standard Parenting Time Plan during divorce proceedings. To find out whether the Standard Parenting Time Plan is the best fit for your family,… Read More »
