Posted by Nydia Streets of Streets Law in Florida Child Custody
When supervised visits are ordered in a Florida child custody case, how does the court determine who should pay these costs? That was an issue in the case Perez-Palma v. Rodriguez, 3D24-0251 (Fla. 3d DCA April 30, 2025).
The father was ordered to have supervised visits with his child, and the court ordered that he be fully responsible for the costs of the same. At the time of ordering this, child support had not been determined and was pending resolution. The father appealed this issue along with other matters in the final judgment.
The appellate court affirmed on all issues except the payment for the supervised visits. The court held “It was premature for the trial court to adjudicate the supervision costs issue because such costs are considered as part of the child support calculation. [. . .] We, therefore, reverse that part of the final judgment requiring Father to pay all costs of his supervised visits without prejudice to the trial court determining this issue as part of its adjudication of the child support issue.”
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