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- Fla. Stat. § 61.517 · Temporary emergency jurisdiction.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.518 · Notice; opportunity to be heard; joinder.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.519 · Simultaneous proceedings.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.520 · Inconvenient forum.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.521 · Jurisdiction declined by reason of conduct.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.522 · Information to be submitted to the court.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.523 · Appearance of parties and child.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.524 · Definitions.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.525 · Enforcement under the Hague Convention.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.526 · Duty to enforce.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.527 · Temporary visitation.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.528 · Registration of child custody determination.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.529 · Enforcement of registered determination.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.530 · Simultaneous proceedings.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.531 · Expedited enforcement of child custody determination.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.532 · Service of petition and order.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.533 · Hearing and order.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.534 · Warrant to take physical custody of child.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.535 · Costs, fees, and expenses.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.536 · Recognition and enforcement.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.537 · Appeals.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.538 · Role of state attorney.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.539 · Role of law enforcement officers.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.540 · Costs and expenses.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.541 · Application and construction.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.542 · Transitional provision.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.55 · Purpose.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.56 · Definitions.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.57 · Beginning, concluding, and terminating a collaborative law process.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.58 · Confidentiality of a collaborative law communication.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.703 · Definitions.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.705 · Remedies for noncompliance.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.707 · Jurisdiction.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.709 · Notice requirement for deploying parent.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.711 · Duty to notify of change of address.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.713 · General consideration in custody proceeding of parent’s service.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.721 · Form of temporary custodial responsibility agreement.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.723 · Nature of authority created by temporary custodial responsibility agreement.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.725 · Modification of agreement.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.727 · Power of attorney.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.729 · Filing custodial responsibility agreement or power of attorney with court.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.733 · Proceeding for temporary custody order.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.735 · Testimony by electronic means.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.737 · Effect of prior judicial order or agreement.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.739 · Grant of temporary caretaking authority to nonparent.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.741 · Grant of limited contact.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.743 · Nature of authority created by temporary custody order.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.745 · Content of temporary custody order.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.747 · Order for child support.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.749 · Modifying or terminating temporary grant of custodial responsibility or limited contact to nonparent.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.761 · Procedure for terminating temporary agreement granting custodial responsibility.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.763 · Visitation before termination of temporary grant of custodial responsibility.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.771 · Relation to electronic signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
- Fla. Stat. § 61.773 · Applicability.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.012 · Short title.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.022 · Legislative intent.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.032 · Definitions.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.037 · Proceedings applicable to cases resulting from a termination of parental rights under chapter 39.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.039 · Duty of adoption entity to prospective adoptive parents; sanctions.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.042 · Who may be adopted; who may adopt.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.0422 · Prohibited conditions on adoptions; firearms and ammunition.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.0423 · Procedures with respect to surrendered infants.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.0425 · Grandparent’s right to notice.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.0427 · Agreements for continued communication or contact between adopted child and siblings, parents, and other relatives.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.043 · Mandatory screening or testing for sickle-cell trait prohibited.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.052 · Guardians designated; proof of commitment.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.053 · Rights and responsibilities of an unmarried biological father; legislative findings.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.054 · Actions required by an unmarried biological father to establish parental rights; Florida Putative Father Registry.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.0541 · Public records exemption for the Florida Putative Father Registry.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.062 · Persons required to consent to adoption; affidavit of nonpaternity; waiver of venue.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.063 · Responsibility of parents for actions; fraud or misrepresentation; contesting termination of parental rights and adoption.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.064 · Persons whose consent to an adoption may be waived.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.082 · Execution of consent to adoption or affidavit of nonpaternity; family social and medical history; revocation of consent.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.085 · Disclosure by adoption entity.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.087 · Proceeding to terminate parental rights pending adoption; general provisions.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.088 · Proceeding to terminate parental rights pending adoption; notice and service; diligent search.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.089 · Proceeding to terminate parental rights pending adoption; hearing; grounds; dismissal of petition; judgment.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.092 · Report to the court of intended placement by an adoption entity; at-risk placement; preliminary study.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.093 · Adoption of children from the child welfare system.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.097 · Fees.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.102 · Filing of petition for adoption or declaratory statement; venue; proceeding for approval of fees and costs.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.112 · Petition for adoption; description; report or recommendation, exceptions; mailing.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.122 · Notice of hearing on petition.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.125 · Final home investigation.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.132 · Affidavit of expenses and receipts.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.135 · Information to be submitted to the court.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.142 · Hearing; judgment of adoption.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.152 · Application for new birth record.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.162 · Hearings and records in adoption proceedings; confidential nature.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.165 · State registry of adoption information; duty to inform and explain.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.167 · State adoption information center.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.172 · Effect of judgment of adoption.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.182 · Statute of repose.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.192 · Recognition of foreign judgment or decree affecting adoption.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.202 · Authority to license; adoption of rules.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.207 · Out-of-state placement.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.212 · Prohibited acts; penalties for violation.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.213 · Preplanned adoption agreement.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.219 · Sanctions.
- Fla. Stat. § 63.222 · Effect on prior adoption proceedings.