• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Submit News
  • Contact Us

Capital Soup

Florida News Straight From the Source

  • Soup Du Jour
  • People
  • Government
  • Campaign
  • Business
  • Education
  • Insights
  • Video
You are here: Home / Soup Du Jour / Senator Jeff Brandes files bill on parenting time plans

Senator Jeff Brandes files bill on parenting time plans

Posted on January 30, 2017

Legislation offers an optional default visitation schedule for non-custodial parents

Senator Jeff Brandes today (R-St. Petersburg) filed SB 590, parenting time plans, introducing an optional default time plan to provide unmarried parents a standard visitation schedule. If adopted, this plan would encourage contact between non-custodial parents and their children.
“Spending time with our children is the most valuable gift parents can give,” stated Senator Brandes. “The state currently requires child support be paid but is silent on time. This bill seeks to offer parents an optional time sharing plan, used in many other states, that puts the focus on parents spending time with their children.”
This time plan is provided as an option when the parents meet with the Department of Revenue to set up child support. It will allow parents to bypass the court system and its associated fees. Parents may accept the plan as stated, deviate and agree upon a different plan, or they may be transferred to the courts system for further mediation. SB 590 provides exceptions to the plan when the child is under 3 years of age, when the parents live more than 100 miles away, and when there are domestic or family violence concerns. SB 590 would encourage the development of a close and continuing relationship between both the custodial and non-custodial parents and the child. The bill does not affect any child support arrangements; it seeks only to simplify the visitation schedule in order to benefit the child.

For more information on SB 590, please visit http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2017/0590.

 
 

Share this article! Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Filed Under: Soup Du Jour Tagged With: Florida Senate, non-custodial, parenting time plans, Senator Jeff Brandes

Primary Sidebar

    Submit News    

Governor Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Chris Sprowls Highlight Proposed Legislation to Combat Foreign Influence and Corporate Espionage

Governor Ron DeSantis was today joined by House Speaker Chris Sprowls and members of the Florida House and … [Read More...] about Governor Ron DeSantis and House Speaker Chris Sprowls Highlight Proposed Legislation to Combat Foreign Influence and Corporate Espionage

‘Community Smiles’ Program Helps Thousands of Floridians Find the Help They Urgently Need

With the COVID-19 pandemic hampering the economy, thousands of Florida families have reached out to LIBERTY … [Read More...] about ‘Community Smiles’ Program Helps Thousands of Floridians Find the Help They Urgently Need

Equity Tallahassee Leon Encourages an Exchange of Perspectives

Perception may not be reality, but it can influence people’s interactions with others and create a difficult … [Read More...] about Equity Tallahassee Leon Encourages an Exchange of Perspectives

Keep in Touch

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Newsletter signup

Stay in the loop! Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to receive a brief recap of the week's most popular stories.

Footer

News

  • Soup Du Jour
  • People
  • Government
  • Campaign
  • Business
  • Education
  • Insights
  • Video

About Us 

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Submit News
  • Contact Us

Keep in Touch

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2021
Terms & Conditions

© Copyright 2021 Capital Soup · All Rights Reserved ·