Co-Parenting Post Covid Family Law Attorney

28 December

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How Might Virtual Learning and Working from Home Affect Shared Parenting and Child Support?

in Child Support, COVID l9, Family Law, Parenting, Time Sharing

Due to the COVID pandemic, working from home and virtual learning has now been in effect for many months and, in some areas, is still an everyday occurrence. In fact, some soothsayers are predicting that this change in the way we live is becoming the new norm. In many instances, schools and businesses are finding it financially beneficial to keep doors closed, and students and employees studying and working from home. For some, this change in venue is welcomed, but for many, especially those who depend on parenting plans and child support, there are and will continue to be possible...

02 December

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What to Know When a Minor Child Must Fly to Visit Parents in Different States During COVID

Posted by Grant Gisondo

in COVID l9, Divorce Law News, Family Law, Lawyer’s Advice, Parenting

Life must go on even during the current COVID pandemic. This life includes the timesharing orders between parents of minor children. When it is nice if both parents live in the same geographical area, it today’s transient society, it often happens that parents live miles and sometimes states apart. As most parental timesharing plans include instructions on allowing minor children to visit, even when many miles separate them, it is important to understand how a minor child can fly between parents. If a minor child needs to fly without an accompanying adult, the child is considered an unaccompanied minor, and...

20 November

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Co-parenting Post COVID

Posted by Grant Gisondo

in Child Support, COVID l9, Divorce Law News, Family Law, Lawyer’s Advice

In Florida, co-parenting is referred to as parental timesharing. A couple who has natural or adopted minor children (children from birth to age l8 or a child who cannot support themselves for mental or physical reasons) and decides to divorce, separate from a cohabitation relationship, or hasn’t lived together, will be required by Family Law Courts to share the care and nurturing of their children. Florida Family Law is built around the motto “in the best interests of the child.” As research has shown children, develop better with the influence of both parents, and parental timesharing has resulted. A parenting...

08 October

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Meaning of Continuity of a Stable, Satisfactory Environment Regarding Timesharing

Posted by Grant Gisondo

in Child Support, COVID l9, Family Law, Parenting, Time Sharing

Parental timesharing - Family law attorney Gisondolaw

Parental timesharing for minor children has, in most states, including Florida, replaced the practice of custody for minor children where there is a primary or residential parent and a secondary or nonresidential parent. Over the years of experience and research, it has been proven that children develop to their best potential when they are cared for and nurtured by both parents. Unfortunately, in perhaps the majority of families in the US, both parents are not together whether in marriage or a living arrangement. The practice of primary and secondary custody simply does not allow a child equal access to and...

28 September

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Timesharing and Virtual Schooling during COVID

Posted by Grant Gisondo

in COVID l9, Family Law, Lawyer’s Advice, Time Sharing

COVID continues to dominate the way our children are educated. In many states, Florida included, many schools are closed and those that can open do so on irregular schedules, sometimes children going half days or every other day. In addition to schools being closed or off a regular schedule, most school districts offer parents a choice whether to send their child to school or keep them home and do the schooling virtually. Most states offer several ways children can be schooled at home. All this being said, if parents are forced or decide to school their children from home, that fact...

17 September

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Dissolution of Marriage During COVID

Posted by Grant Gisondo

in COVID l9, Divorce Law News, Family Law, Lawyer’s Advice

proceedings for Dissolution of Marriage during COVID l9

COVID has and is affecting the way we live our everyday lives. It seems there is no area left untouched by one regulation or another, and Family Court in Florida is no exception. For those couples who are seeking dissolution of marriage (divorce), there have been significant changes in the way things are done in order to complete the process of dissolution. The main thing to be aware of regarding a dissolution hearing is that as of May 21, 2020, an issue was ordered by the Supreme Court of Florida termed the Administrative Order AOSC20-23 Amendment 2. This amendment is in...