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Fla. 4th DCA·
2022-05-25
The Fourth District affirmed the trial court's denial of a former wife's petition to modify permanent periodic alimony, holding that eligible but unapplied-for Social Security benefits cannot be imputed as income to the recipient spouse absent a stipulation or finding contemplati
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Fla. 4th DCA·
2022-05-25
The appellate court affirmed a trial court's decision denying a petition to modify alimony. The court held that the former wife failed to prove a substantial change in circumstances, and the trial court correctly declined to impute the value of the former husband's unapplied-for
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Fla. 4th DCA·
2022-03-02
The appellate court reversed a lower court's modification of a paternity judgment, finding that the mother's sobriety, achieved shortly after the judgment, did not constitute a substantial and unanticipated change in circumstances required for modification.
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Fla. 4th DCA·
2022-03-02
The Fourth District reversed the circuit court's modification of a custody order based on the mother's sobriety, holding that improved life circumstances occurring shortly after the original judgment do not constitute a substantial and material change in circumstances required fo
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Fla. 3d DCA·
2021-12-15
Maria Luisa Massa Cisneros, a mother, sought a writ of mandamus to compel the trial court to rule on the merits of her motion for reconsideration of a stipulated judgment that enrolled her three children in the Family Bridges Program and imposed a no-contact provision that had la
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Fla. 2d DCA·
2021-06-18
A parenting plan modification agreed upon by the parties in their judgment does not require proof of a substantial change in circumstances when the parties have explicitly provided for that modification to occur upon a specified event. However, any modifications beyond those spec
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Fla. 2d DCA·
2021-04-30
The appellate court reversed a lower court's modification of a parenting plan, holding that the lower court failed to make the required finding of a substantial, unanticipated change in circumstances. The court emphasized that parental acrimony alone is insufficient to justify mo
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Fla. 1st DCA·
2019-11-27
The appellate court reversed a lower court's order that automatically reinstated equal time-sharing between divorced parents based on future conditions. The court held that such prospective modifications are impermissible under Florida law, which requires a present-based determin
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226 So. 3d 361·
Fla. 2d DCA·
2017-09-15
The court affirmed the denial of a motion to modify time-sharing but remanded to strike language improperly determining the child's best interests prospectively.
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135 So. 3d 323·
Fla. 5th DCA·
2013-08-02
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49 So. 3d 1290·
Fla. 1st DCA·
2010-12-29
Florida appellate court reversed trial court's time-sharing modification order because the trial court erroneously excluded evidence of alleged child abuse that was relevant to the best interests determination.
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982 So. 2d 34·
Fla. 1st DCA·
2008-04-03
A Florida appellate court reversed a trial court's decision to modify child custody from the mother to the father in a paternity action. The court held that the father, as the party seeking modification, failed to meet the heightened burden of proving both a substantial and mater
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915 So. 2d 777·
Fla. 2d DCA·
2005-12-14
In this dependency case, the Florida Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's award of permanent custody to the Father but reversed the visitation provisions that left the Mother's visitation entirely at the Father's discretion. The court held that the family la
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756 So. 2d 164·
Fla. 4th DCA·
2000-03-22
A mother appealed a custody modification judgment entered after she failed to appear at trial. The trial court allowed her to present evidence on a motion to set aside the judgment but imposed on her the burden of proving the judgment should not have been entered. The court affir
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657 So. 2d 1197·
Fla. 4th DCA·
1995-06-14
Florida appellate court reversed the trial court's modification of a New York divorce judgment that changed child custody from the mother to the father. The court found that the father failed to demonstrate the requisite substantial and material change in circumstances since the