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40 verbatim requirements from document (unlisted) [unlisted] EvNFJFLWPat.
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.ca.cjis20.org/pdf/judge/EvNFJFLWPat.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • Both parents must work to solve any parenting difficulties that may arise. • Florida law also provides: “When a parent who is ordered to pay child support ... fails to pay child support ... , the parent who should have received the child support ... may not refuse to honor the time- sharing schedule presently in effect between the parents.” §61.13(4)(a) "When a parent refuses to honor the other parent’s rights under the time-sharing schedule, the parent whose time-sharing rights were violated shall continue to pay any ordered child support ...” §61.13(4)(b). • Likewise, child support must be paid regularly and on time even if the parent owing child support is not in contact with the child because the child has a right to be supported by both parents all of the time. • 3.4 All factors considered In deciding a parental responsibility order, a parenting plan and a time-sharing schedule, the court must make the child’s best interest the “primary consideration” and the court must consider all of the factors in §61.13(3). • The court must also consider the “expressed desires” of the parents in these decisions, but the interests of the parents are not a -- 2 of 11 -- 3 consideration, §61.13(2)(c)2.,a. • The parents do not have a right to any particular parental responsibility order, parenting plan, or time-sharing schedule, while the child has a right to “frequent and continuing contact with both parents after the parents separate.” §61.13(2)(c)1. • Therefore, since 1982 and under the current statute the “time-sharing” order and the “parental -- 3 of 11 -- 4 responsibility” order must be two, separate orders. • Regarding the parental responsibility order under §61.13(2) the court can order (1) the parents must share parental responsibility for all decisions; or (2) the parents must share parental responsibility and one parent may have ultimate responsibility over some or all aspects of the child’s life, see, e.g.,Watt v Watt, 966 So.2d 455 (Fla. 4th DCA 2007); • Further, the goal of every litigation is to end the -- 4 of 11 -- 5 dispute, and in a Chapter 61 proceeding the court does not end the dispute if it is open to endlessly hear and overrule one parent or the other whenever they do not agree on decisions they were ordered to “share.” • A parent seeking sole parental responsibility over some aspect or all aspects of the child’s life must plead for this in a petition. • So, when the parties plead for shared parental responsibility, or, at least, fail to properly plead for sole parental responsibility, the court must order the parties to share parental responsibility and as part of the shared parental responsibility order the court may grant ultimate responsibility to one parent or the other over some or all aspects of the child’s life. • (1) the parents do not consistently confer and consult together about major parenting decisions, for example, health insurance for Z., which the mother wants to purchase through her work and the father is purchasing, or, for example, whether the child needs shoe inserts; • The Mother is hereby granted authority to authorize emergency medical treatment on the child when the child are with the Mother but the Mother must promptly notify the Father of the emergency and then the Father has the authority to make a decision about non-emergency medical treatment. • 3.7 Both parents have equal parental rights to information - Access to records and information pertaining to a minor child, including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and school records, may not be denied to either parent. • The court must decide the best interest of the child over the long term. • The court orders that the parents shall follow this plan and time-sharing schedule. • The court orders that for any calendar year after this date, the parent or other person with whom the child stayed at least 183 days out of the calendar year is the parent or person who is entitled to the dependent’s exemption for the child on the federal income tax return for that year, regardless of what any time-sharing order in this case may say about where the child is ordered to live. • However, if there is no such I.R.S. form signed and delivered by the parent or person entitled to the exemption under this order for any calendar year then the parent or other person with whom the child stayed at least 183 days out of the calendar year is the parent or person who is entitled to the dependent’s exemption for the child on the federal income tax return for that year, as ordered above. • 4.4 F.S. §61.13(4)(b) provides: “When [the parent with whom the child lives most of the time] refuses to honor [the child’s right of contact with the other parent] the [parent owing child support] shall not fail to pay any ordered child support...” This is the law because the child has a right to be supported by both parents all of the time. • 4.5 It is now ordered that child support shall not be modified during any period of contact with the Mother, who is the parent with whom the child resides the least amount of time during the year. • 4.8 Current Support and Arrearage Amount Per Month Therefore, the Mother shall pay to the Father the total of: • All payments shall be paid to the Department of Revenue in -- 8 of 11 -- 9 • Deduction Order shall issue directing the payor's current employer and any future employer of the payor to deduct the child support due under this order from any income due to the payor and forward it the depository, the “Florida Support Disbursement Unit”, as required by said statute, as amended from time to time hereafter. • The form of the income deduction order shall be prepared by the payee or the payee's counsel and sent to the undersigned judge for signing and filing. • 4.11 Place of Payment Child support shall be paid by check or money order payable to and sent to the “Florida Support Disbursement Unit”, P.O. • The payor must write on each check (1) this case number and also the words (2) "Lee County case”. • 4.12 Addresses and Social Security numbers As required by §61.13(8)(a), F.S., within 30 days of this order both parties are ordered to write to the “State Case Registry”, P.O. • Registry” must also be delivered or mailed to the Clerk of the Court, Lee County, Florida, 1700 • This coverage shall not be canceled and shall be maintained on the child as long as possible or until the parties agree otherwise. • The Father shall promptly provide the Mother with cards or other proof of the coverage when these are made available by the insurer and when requested by the Mother or any medical provider of the child. • (B) Uncovered Medical Bills The parties shall be responsible for any uncovered reasonable and necessary medical bills of the child incurred since the trial date in an amount equal to the ratio of their available incomes. • If either parent pays for any such treatment or bill, they shall be reimbursed for any amount paid beyond their share of it by the other parent. • They shall be reimbursed only for treatments that are reasonable and necessary. -- 9 of 11 -- 10 (C) Prompt Request and Prompt Payment If either parent incurs a “medical bill”, as defined below, on a child, he or she shall send a copy of it to the other parent with a cover note asking for payment of one-half of the bill. • He or she must keep a copy of the bill and the note asking for payment. • Upon receipt of such correspondence, the parent receiving it shall promptly reimburse one-half of the bill to the other parent, or he or she shall promptly send a written objection or explanation to the other parent explaining why the payment is not being made. • (D) Record Keeping During the minority of the child, each parent must maintain a chronological, serial list of all uncovered medical bills they incur until the child is 18, if he or she expects to be reimbursed for such medical bills, along with copies of each bill on the list, which bill copies shall be attached to the list with a staple in the same order as the items on the list. • The list of bills shall be in chronological order and must be serially numbered on the list, that is, "1", “2", “3", and so on until the child is 18. • The same number must be written on each copy of the bills attached to the list so that each copy of an attached bill matches the correct item on the list. • Each item on the list shall (1) state the name of the medical provider, (2) the date the treatment happened, (3) what the bill was for, (4) the amount of the bill, and (5) whether it has been paid in full or in part. • The parents shall reimburse the other only by check or money order and shall keep all cancelled checks or money order receipts.
Both parents must work to solve any parenting difficulties that may arise.
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