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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 88
UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
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F.S. 88.2041
88.2041 Simultaneous proceedings in another state.—
(1) A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed after a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country only if:
(a) The petition or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in the other state or the foreign country for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by the other state or the foreign country;
(b) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in the other state or the foreign country; and
(c) If relevant, this state is the home state of the child.
(2) A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed before a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country if:
(a) The petition or comparable pleading in the other state or the foreign country is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in this state for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by this state;
(b) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in this state; and
(c) If relevant, the other state or the foreign country is the home state of the child.
History.—s. 2, ch. 96-189; s. 8, ch. 2011-92.

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Carr v. Phillips

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1989-03-15

Citation: 540 So. 2d 168, 14 Fla. L. Weekly 667, 1989 Fla. App. LEXIS 1307, 1989 WL 22529

Snippet: LETTS, Judge. Before us is yet another custody battle, this time involving a father who now seeks custody of his five-year-old daughter, originally awarded to the unwed mother at the conclusion of a paternity suit. See § 744.301(1), Fla.Stat. (1987). The trial judge held that the father had not established that it would be in the best interests of the child to modify custody and had failed to show a substantial change in circumstances. We reverse and remand. During the course of the instant proceedings