Man Fights for Paternity Rights for Young Son

A father in St. Lucie County is in the midst of a paternity battle in the hopes of gaining parental rights to his biological three year old son. In this unusual circumstance, a Florida law declaring that children born into a marriage belong to that marriage has given the mother’s husband all...

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New Parenting Laws Go Into Effect in Florida

In 2017, more than 20 states discussed legislation that promoted sharing custody for children of divorce. This year, Florida is enacting a new law with the goal of efficiently constructing co-parenting plans for divorced or unmarried parents. Under the law, the Department of Revenue will have the right to give parents a...

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Father Permitted to Take Child to Cuba

A family court judge in Florida ruled that a baby girl would be placed in the legal custody of her biological father. The judge also ruled the the father could leave the country with the infant, returning to his native Cuba. The child’s mother died during childbirth, and the infant must be...

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Divorce Considered Adverse Childhood Event

A new report titled "The Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Nationally, by State, and by Race or Ethnicity" names divorce as a childhood event that can have adverse effects on young people. There are several events that can add up in such a way that childhood development and adult behaviors are negatively...

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Are Three Parents Better Than Two?

Paternity cases are never easy but they can be particularly difficult when a wrench is thrown into the works. Such is the case in Tallahassee, where a five-year-old girl has found herself in the middle of a custody battle between the man who was married to her mother when the child was...

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