Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

well as section 61.526, Florida Statutes. See [Baker, 522 U.S. at 232-33, 118 S.Ct. 657]; § 61.526(1), Fla

...Since the Colorado order was a final judgment and emanated from a “child custody proceeding” within the meaning of section 61.503(4), Florida Statutes (2013), 2 it became enforceable in Florida pursuant to the Full Faith and Credit Clause as well as section 61.526, Florida Statutes. See id.; § 61.526(1), Fla....

...5th DCA 2025); Bravo v. Johnson, 396 So. 3d 874, 876–77 (Fla. 1st DCA 2024); McIndoo v. Atkinson, 159 So. 3d 227, 230–31 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015). Indeed, Florida courts “shall recognize and enforce” lawful custody orders from other states. See § 61.526(1), Fla....

...Their petition did not ask the Florida court to 2 modify the existing order, even on a temporary basis. In that scenario, temporary emergency jurisdiction was unnecessary. Instead, the court should have evaluated whether the home state custody order was enforceable under section 61.526. See McIndoo, 159 So. 3d at 228–31 (rejecting a court’s ruling that it lacked jurisdiction, and holding that it should have granted relief under section 61.526—the “proper statute”—reasoning that the home state rule “applies to an initial child custody determination,” not to a petition asking a Florida court to domesticate an out-of-state order); see also Smith v. Daniel, 246 So. 3d 1279, 1280–81, 1281 n.3 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018) (citing section 61.526(1)—which “requires a Florida court to ‘recognize and enforce a child custody determination of a court of another state’”—in holding that a court erred by not giving full faith and credit to an out-of-state order); Ledoux-Nottingham v. Downs, 163 So. 3d 560, 563 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015) (affirming the enforcement of another state’s visitation order, which was “enforceable in Florida pursuant to the Full Faith and Credit Clause as well as section 61.526, Florida Statutes”). Accordingly, we reverse and remand with instructions to consider the domestication and enforcement petition on the merits. We reject Appellants’ other arguments without discussion. REVERSED and REMAND...

...In the present case, however, we hold the trial court did abuse its discretion by failing to accord full faith and credit due the Kentucky Domestic Violence Order of Protection under 18 U.S.C. § 2265(a) 1 and section 741.315(2), Florida Statutes (2016). 2 See also § 61.526(1), Fla....

...2265, an injunction for protection against domestic violence issued by a court of a foreign state must be accorded full faith and credit by the courts of this state and enforced by a law enforcement agency as if it were the order of a Florida court . . . . 3 Section 61.526(1), Fla....

...al emancipation, or enforcement under ss. 61.524-61.540. § 61.503(4), Fla. Stat. (2013) (emphasis added). As can be seen, the petition for domestication of foreign judgment and notice of registration filed by the mother, pursuant to sections 61.526 and 61.528, respectively, are expressly not included as “child custody proceedings” under the UCCJEA....

...ild custody proceeding” under the definition in the UCCJEA before the trial court can have jurisdiction to act upon a petition to domesticate a foreign custody order. To the contrary, both the statute governing domestication of a foreign judgment (section 61.526) and registration of a judgment (section 61.528) are contained within Florida’s UCCJEA statutes....

...Since section 61.519 expressly states that the court may not exercise jurisdiction under sections 61.514-61.524, the simultaneous proceedings statute did not bar the trial court’s jurisdiction to entertain the mother’s petition to domesticate under section 61.526 or the notice she filed under section 61.528. Proper Statutory Application The proper statute which the trial court should have applied was section 61.526, Florida Statutes (2013). Section 61.526 states: A court of this state shall recognize and enforce a child custody determination of a court of another state if the latter court exercised jurisdiction in substantial conformity with this part or the det...

...for a modification of a domesticated order. See § 61.516, Fla. Stat. (2013). 5  circumstances meeting the jurisdictional standards of this part and the determination has not been modified in accordance with this part. § 61.526(1), Fla....

...order awarding the grandparents visitation with the minor children pursuant to the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution1 and the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA), as set forth, in part, in section 61.526(1), Florida Statutes (2013)....

...determinations in Florida are governed by both the UCCJEA and the PKPA. 2 this sense, make-up visitation "square[s] the loss of past visitation rights.” Morales v. Morales, 915 So. 2d 247, 249 n.1 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005). Furthermore, section 61.526, titled "Duty to enforce,” authorizes the award of “any remedy” to enforce another state’s child custody determination. § 61.526, Fla....