Child Custody

Deciding how to share parenting responsibilities in the wake of divorce may create challenges. Even though you and your spouse may have struggled to resolve marital conflicts, raising your children is most likely something both of you wish to accomplish. Going...

Divorce is a difficult time for everybody involved, particularly children. Many parents worry about the mental and emotional health of their children throughout the divorce process, and with good reason. Typically, after a divorce, the parents will set up separate...

Child tax credit payments are early payments of the child tax credit you can claim on your taxes when you have children under the age of 17. A special ruling allows these payments. If you have shared custody, it can alter your taxes in many ways. It may also make you...

Despite the widespread use of the term custody, Florida actually uses "time-sharing" to describe how parents divide time with their children after divorce. The state encourages parents to come to an agreement about time-sharing either independently or with the help of...

It is important for Florida families to understand the changes that they will face when the parents go through separations and divorces. When a relationship between parents ends, the adults must learn to live their lives separately and their children must learn how to...

Like other states, Florida has a law which parents subject to a Florida court’s custody or parenting time orders will need to follow. The law prevents parents from making surprise long-distance moves with their children or, for that matter, moves which are arbitrary...

When a couple goes through a divorce, there are many issues to be resolved. Some of the most important issues for those who have children are custody and child visitation arrangements to determine how much time the children will spend with each parent. Once a divorce...

Children's needs change as they age so it's only fitting that a custody arrangement created when a divorced couple's children were toddlers may not be the best arrangement once their children become teens. Although it is possible for parents to work out new...