MODIFICATION OF CHILD CUSTODY, PARENTAL

RESPONSIBILITY AND TIME-SHARING (VISITATION)

Faulkner Legal Group, P.A., is an Orlando divorce, paternity and legal separation law firm.  We assist clients in the Orlando, Central Florida and surrounding areas as well as the State of Florida as a whole.  As an Orlando divorce, paternity and legal separation attorney, David A. Faulkner represents clients with regard to a variety of child custody, parental responsibility and time-sharing (visitation) modification issues.

SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE IN CIRCUMSTANCES

If you have a previously court ordered child custody, parental responsibility and time-sharing (visitation) arrangement in place regarding your minor children, there are certain grounds that, if proven, may justify modifying the existing court order.  In order to modify such an existing court order, the parent seeking the modification must allege in a supplemental petition to modify and must ultimately prove the existence of one or more substantial changes in circumstances.  In order to be a substantial change in circumstances, it must be a material (not slight) change in circumstances.  Further, the change must be a change that was not contemplated at the time the original order was entered.  Also, the change must be one that was not voluntarily created by the parent seeking the modification.  Of course, the requested remedy must be in the best interests of the minor children.  An example of such a substantial change in circumstances might be one of the minor children being diagnosed after the original order was entered with a medical issue that requires time consuming treatment for the child.   Such treatment could effect time-sharing if the minor child is no longer available during the same time periods needed to accomplish the previously ordered time-sharing schedule.  There are of course a wide variety of possible changes in circumstances that might be found to be substantial in nature.    

WHERE TO GET LEGAL HELP?

If you have an Orlando divorce, paternity or legal separation modification issue you need help with, then contact Faulkner Legal Group, P.A. so that attorney David A. Faulkner can inform you of your legal rights.  Call today.