Parental responsibility

In this last post of our three-part series on nonparent family members and child custody, we discuss shelter care. Shelter care is the protective placement of a child to live outside of their parental home because the child is in danger there. Florida judges consider...

There are times in life when for a parent to best care for their child, they must ask for help. Often this assistance comes in the form of asking a family member to take care of the child for a while. Florida law recognizes that extended families providing for...

While people think of child custody disputes as being between the two parents of a child, in some situations Florida law provides for other immediate or extended family members to step in to take responsibility for a child’s care. This is the first of a three-post...

What to do in Florida if you’re being ignored as a co-parent If you are the divorced or unmarried parent of a minor child, there is a high chance that you share with the other parent the responsibility to make important life decisions for your child together. Despite...

Can a Florida judge force you to have your child vaccinated? What happens when parents disagree? At the time of this writing in December 2020, we are at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans await the approval of vaccines that could protect us, but when they...