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Special Needs Children and Divorce

March 31, 2011/0 Comments/in Divorce, Kids, Kids Ok //Tags: child custody, child support, divorce, parental responsibility, parenting plan, time-sharingby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

California family law attorney Lisa Helfend Meyer recently discussed particular issues that arise in divorce cases involving special needs children:

A parenting plan for the typical child may not be appropriate for an autistic child or one with other developmental issues. For example, it’s not unusual for the typical 3 year-old child to be able to have overnight stays with the non-custodial parent. She can understand the concept of time and that she will see her other parent again. The special-needs child often has difficulty with transitions, she is comforted by the familiar and doesn’t like changes in environment. Likewise, she may not be unable to express herself verbally nor to understand abstract concepts like time. Custody and visitation decisions for a special-needs child must take into account many issues like these.

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Technological Solutions to Shared Parental Responsibility

March 29, 2011/0 Comments/in Divorce //Tags: child custody, divorce, parental responsibility, parenting plan, paternity, time-sharingby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

South Carolina Attorney Megan C. Hunt mentions some online tools available to help facilitate co-parenting:

But the reality is that co-parenting is HARD. It is difficult for two people who have decided they can’t get along to coordinate schedules, discipline, and all the other details of raising children.

Because co-parenting is so tough (and such situations are so common), there are now services and communities especially for parents who need help. One such program is Our Family Wizard, which provides a calendar for documenting parenting time, an internal message system for communications with your ex-spouse, the ability to keep a shared or private journal about your children, and a way to share the children’s health, education, and other records.

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What is a Parenting Plan?

March 28, 2011/0 Comments/in Florida Statutes //Tags: child custody, divorce, parental responsibility, parenting plan, paternity, time-sharing, UCCJEAby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

According to Section 61.046 of the Florida Statutes:

“Parenting plan” means a document created to govern the relationship between the parents relating to decisions that must be made regarding the minor child and must contain a time-sharing schedule for the parents and child. The issues concerning the minor child may include, but are not limited to, the child’s education, health care, and physical, social, and emotional well-being. In creating the plan, all circumstances between the parents, including their historic relationship, domestic violence, and other factors must be taken into consideration.

(a) The parenting plan must be:

1. Developed and agreed to by the parents and approved by a court; or

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Video: Ten Techniques To Minimize the Stress of Divorce on Children

March 15, 2011/0 Comments/in Divorce //Tags: child custody, divorce, parental responsibility, parenting plan, time-sharingby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

Chicago family law attorney Richard Kulerski provides ten techniques that you can use to minimize the negative impact that a divorce can have on children:

Secretly Recording A Spouse Has A Price: $120,000.00

March 14, 2011/1 Comment/in Divorce //Tags: child custody, divorce, domestic violence injunction, parental responsibility, parenting plan, time-sharingby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

An article from Ars Technica discusses a woman who secretly put a recording device in a teddy bear to prove allegations that her estranged spouse was mistreating their daughter. Not only did the family law court rule that the recordings were inadmissible, but the husband (“Duke”) sued the wife (“Dianna”) in federal court for, among other things, violation of the federal Wiretap Act. From the article:

When Duke filed the federal lawsuit against Dianna in 2009, he also rounded up five other plaintiffs whose conversations had been recorded by the bear. One plaintiff, a cousin of Duke’s, at one point had the bear in his van for several days after it was left there accidentally; the cousin, going through his own divorce at the time, was upset that his conversations had been recorded and eventually distributed to people involved with Duke and Dianna’s custody case.

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Father Flees Florida With Child; Faces Charges of Felony Interference With Custody of Child

February 28, 2011/2 Comments/in Florida Statutes //Tags: child custody, enforcement, Florida Statutes, interference with custody of a child, Lee County, parental responsibility, parenting plan, time-sharingby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

News-Press.com out of Fort Meyers, Florida, is reporting that a father faces felony charges of interference with custody of a minor child after fleeing the state and hiding his child in Michigan.

The child’s father and mother had been divorced since May of 2010, and the father was exercising his regularly scheduled time-sharing with his child. However, instead of returning the child to the mother at the end of his time-sharing schedule, the father simply left Florida without telling the mother where he or the child were going or when they would be back. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office then obtained a warrant for the father’s arrest.

A charge of interference with custody of a minor child is based on section 787.03, Florida Statutes. Below is the text of this statute:

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Video: The Family Law Project – Paternity

February 27, 2011/1 Comment/in Divorce //Tags: child custody, child support, parental responsibility, parenting plan, paternity, time-sharingby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

The following video from Aspen Publishing dramatizes a consultation where a young man is seeking information regarding paternity:

Please note that, in Florida, if the state files a petition to establish paternity and child support on behalf of a mother, the issue of a father’s custody rights will not necessarily be addressed. A father has to independently file a petition or counter-petition to establish paternity and a parenting plan. Only then will a court enter an order which (i) lays out the father’s level of parental responsibility towards the child and (ii) creates a schedule which spells out the days when a father is entitled to spend time with the child.

To contact a Florida family law attorney regarding your paternity issue, visit the website of The Law Firm of Adam B. Cordover, P.A., or call us at (813) 443-0615.

Video: The Intelligent Divorce

February 23, 2011/1 Comment/in Divorce //Tags: child custody, divorce, parental responsibility, parenting plan, time-sharingby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

When a client comes into my office with a divorce matter involving minor children, I always tell him or her that, even after divorce, he or she will still be in a relationship with an ex-spouse until–at the very earliest–all of their children have turned eighteen. Dr. Mark Banschick, a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, discusses this and other issues in the following video from The Intelligent Divorce:

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Filing Fees in Pasco County

February 20, 2011/4 Comments/in Divorce //Tags: 6th Judicial Circuit, adoption, alimony, change of name, child custody, child support, divorce, filing fees, modification of final judgment, parental responsibility, parenting plan, Pasco County, paternity, Pinellas County, service of process, temporary child custody, time-sharingby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

I previous wrote about filing fees in Hillsborough County and Pinellas County. In this post I review current filing fees in the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pasco County, for common family law matters. A person who initiates a family law case (the “Petitioner”) will pay the following:

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Filing Fees in Pinellas County

February 19, 2011/4 Comments/in Divorce //Tags: 6th Judicial Circuit, adoption, alimony, change of name, child custody, child support, divorce, filing fees, modification of final judgment, name change, parental responsibility, parenting plan, paternity, Pinellas County, service of process, temporary child custody, time-sharingby Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law

I previous wrote about filing fees in Hillsborough County. In this post I review current filing fees in the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pinellas County, for common family law matters. A person who initiates a family law case (the “Petitioner”) will pay the following:

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