FAMILY LAW



Modification of Custody, Visitation, and Other Relief $250

This should be used when you are asking the court to change current court-ordered custody or visitation arrangements. The court can change an order granting shared parental responsibility, including a primary residential responsibility/custody order if the judge finds that there has been a substantial change in circumstances of the parties and the change is in the child(ren)'s best interest. 

Modification of Child Support $200

This should be used when you are asking the court to change a current court-ordered child support obligation. The court can change a child support order if the judge finds that there has been a substantial change in circumstances of the parties and the change is in the child(ren)'s best interests. 

Emergency Child Pick-up Order $150

This should be used to request the court to enter an order directing the sheriff or other law enforcement officer to take a minor child(ren) from the person who currently has physical possession of the child(ren) and deliver the child(ren) to your physical custody. This should only be used in an emergency by a person who has pre-existing legal right to physical possession of a minor child. This means that you already have a court order awarding you legal custody of the child(ren) or you are the birth mother of one or more of the children born out of wedlock and no court order has addressed any other person's parental rights. 

Paternity and Related Relief $250

This should be used by a birth mother or father to ask the court to establish paternity, custody, visitation, and/or child support of a minor child or children. This means that you are trying to legally establish who is the father of the child(ren). 

Temporary Custody, Chapter 751, Florida Statutes $150

This should be used in uncontested cases involving the custody of a child that is currently living with an extended family member when the extended family member is caring for the child full time in the role of a substitute parent. There must not be any other custody action pending in another court. If the action is contested or if the parents of the child are involved in a dissolution of marriage or other custody proceeding, you should not use this . 

Motion for Contempt of Court $150

This should be used to ask the court to enforce a prior court order or final judgment. 

Name Change - Adult $150

This should be used when an adult wants the court to change his or her name. This is not to be used in connection with a dissolution of marriage action. If you want to change a name because of a dissolution that is not yet final, the name change should be done as a part of that dissolution case.