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Visitation Rights

Child Custody and Child Visitation Law:

1)  Can I get joint custody of my children?

    Florida law encourages judges to award shared parenting to parents. This means that both parents have a right to make decisions concerning their children, such as education, medical treatment and religious training.

    The court also has the power to award residential responsibility to one or both parents. Primary residential responsibility determines where the child actually lives, and it is most common for the children to spend most of their time with one parent.

    The parent who does not have primary residential responsibility is usually granted secondary residential responsibility or other visitation rights.

    It is most common for the non-custodial parent to have specified periods of time consisting of alternating weekends, one evening per night and one-half of the children's school vacations.

    In some cases, the parents agree to reasonable or flexible secondary physical custody or visitation rights, which means that the parents agree on the times when the non-custodial parent will have the children.


 

 

 

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