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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 61
DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE; SUPPORT; TIME-SHARING

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F.S. 61.502

61.502 Purposes of part; construction of provisions.—The general purposes of this part are to:

(1) Avoid jurisdictional competition and conflict with courts of other states in matters of child custody which have in the past resulted in the shifting of children from state to state with harmful effects on their well-being.

(2) Promote cooperation with the courts of other states to the end that a custody decree is rendered in the state that can best decide the case in the interest of the child.

(3) Discourage the use of the interstate system for continuing controversies over child custody.

(4) Deter abductions.

(5) Avoid relitigating the custody decisions of other states in this state.

(6) Facilitate the enforcement of custody decrees of other states.

(7) Promote and expand the exchange of information and other forms of mutual assistance between the courts of this state and those of other states concerned with the same child.

(8) Make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this part among the states enacting it.

History.—s. 5, ch. 2002-65.

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Cases Citing Statute 61.502

Total Results: 20

Loring E. Justice v. Linn Marie Guerrero-Justice

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2025-02-05

Snippet: other states concerned with the same child.” § 61.502(2), (7), Fla. Stat. In furtherance of this purpose

Racquel Dorvil v. Jacarr Atwell

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-12-04

Snippet: promote cooperation with courts of other states. § 61.502(1), (2), Fla. Stat. (2024). Florida has adopted

Burgos v. Sequeira, Vargas

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-10-16

Snippet: So. 3d 1257, 1259 (Fla. 1st DCA 2022) (quoting § 61.502(1)). Based upon the waivers and consents

ANTHONY T. LITSCH, III vs JULIE LITSCH N/K/A JULIE MILLS

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2023-10-13

Snippet: the law” with respect to subject of the UCCJEA. § 61.502, Fla. Stat. (2022).

K.D. v. IN RE: IN THE INTEREST OF P.P., R.P., and L.P.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2022-03-23

Snippet: enforcement of another state’s custody decisions. See § 61.502, Fla. Stat. In 2002, the Florida Legislature

CASSIDY S. MILLER v. ALEX V. MITCHELL

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2021-10-06

Snippet: enforcement of another state’s custody decrees. See § 61.502, Fla. Stat. (2021); N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2A:34-53

N.B. v. Dep't of Children of Families

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-06-05

Citation: 274 So. 3d 1163

Snippet: Rptr. 3d 550, 555 (2013) (citation omitted); see § 61.502, Fla. Stat. (2018). Pursuant to the initial child

N.B. v. Dep't of Children of Families

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-06-05

Citation: 274 So. 3d 1163

Snippet: Rptr. 3d 550, 555 (2013) (citation omitted); see § 61.502, Fla. Stat. (2018). Pursuant to the initial child

Baker v. Tunney

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2016-10-21

Citation: 201 So. 3d 1235, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 15697

Snippet: child custody matters and is set forth in sections 61.502 through 61.542, Florida Statutes (2015).

Makaros v. Cichocki

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2015-03-13

Citation: 159 So. 3d 957, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 3584, 2015 WL 1071067

Snippet: Enforcement Act (“UCCJEA”), codified at section 61.502-61.542,' Florida Statutes (2013).2 An evidentiary

Nadine Mcindoo v. Ashley Atkinson

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2015-02-18

Citation: 159 So. 3d 227, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 2151, 2015 WL 671167

Snippet: 941 So.2d 451, 454 (Fla. 3d DCA 2006) (citing § 61.502, Fla. Stat. (2005)). 2 . The father

M.A.C. v. M.D.H.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2012-05-30

Citation: 88 So. 3d 1050, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 8593, 2012 WL 1939742

Snippet: jurisdiction over child custody matters. Id.; see also § 61.502 (stating the general purposes of the UC-CJEA).

KI v. Department of Children and Families

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2011-10-05

Citation: 70 So. 3d 749, 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 15738, 2011 WL 4578271

Snippet: other states in matters of child custody...." § 61.502(1), Fla. Stat. (2010). The court that has initial

Schaffer v. Ling

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2011-09-28

Citation: 76 So. 3d 940, 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 15379, 2011 WL 4467341

Snippet: of other states in matters of child custody.” § 61.502(1), Fla. Stat. (2010). Under the UCCJEA, a “child

Hindle v. FUITH

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2010-04-23

Citation: 33 So. 3d 782, 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 5347, 2010 WL 1626410

Snippet: Jurisdiction Enforcement Act ("UCCJEA"), sections 61.502 to 61.542, Florida Statutes (2003).[1]See Arjona

Dyce v. Christie

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2009-09-16

Citation: 17 So. 3d 892, 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 13747, 2009 WL 2949381

Snippet: relitigation of custody decisions of other states. § 61.502, Fla. Stat. In this case, although the father complains

Karam v. Karam

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2009-03-11

Citation: 6 So. 3d 87, 2009 Fla. App. LEXIS 1795, 2009 WL 605401

Snippet: of other states in matters of child custody." § 61.502(1). Under the UCCJEA, a foreign country is treated

Arjona v. Torres

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2006-10-25

Citation: 941 So. 2d 451, 2006 WL 3019578

Snippet: uniformity of the laws governing custody issues. § 61.502, Fla. Stat. (2005). The UCCJEA is, therefore, a

Staats v. McKinnon

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2006-02-27

Citation: 924 So. 2d 82, 2006 WL 452824

Snippet: the case in the interest of the child," section 61.502(2), Florida Statutes, and section 36-6-202(2),

Bryant v. Lovett

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1967-03-22

Citation: 201 So. 2d 720, 1967 Fla. LEXIS 3799

Snippet: hereinafter appear, and declared invalid Chapter 61-502, Laws of Florida, as it is applied in this case