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Parental Relocations & Long Distance Parenting Plans in Florida

Parental Relocations & Your Long Distance Parenting Plan As a parental relocation and Tampa child custody attorney, we have represented parents who have needed to relocate in their jobs and for other reasons due to changes in our economy. In Florida, it is important that you get permission from the courts to relocate and part of that process will be coming up with an agreeable long distance parenting plan. In Florida, many divorced and unmarried parents who share time do…

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Florida Custody Rights Unmarried Parents

Tampa Child Custody Lawyers Custody Rights of Unmarried Parents In Florida when children are born to married couples, the father of the child is presumed to be the husband. But, what are the legal custody rights of unmarried fathers? In Florida an unmarried father has no legal rights to custody or timesharing until paternity is established. Until paternity is legally established with the courts, the mother has sole, legal and physical custody of the child or children. For Prompt Assistance,…

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Paternity

How Legal Paternity is Defined and Established in Florida Paternity is defined as the state of being a father; fatherhood.  In Florida, fatherhood or legal paternity is established with a blood test. Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) or a procedure called a Buccal scrap are two types of DNA testing, used to determine the percentage of likelihood that a man is the biological father of a child.  Establishment of Paternity / Obtaining an Order to Establish Paternity in Tampa Bay,…

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