Florida Senate - 2025                                    SB 1506
       
       
        
       By Senator Davis
       
       
       
       
       
       5-01461-25                                            20251506__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the failure to comply with a time
    3         sharing schedule; amending s. 61.13, F.S.; providing a
    4         civil cause of action for a parent’s failure or
    5         refusal to comply with a court-ordered time-sharing
    6         schedule; providing affirmative defenses; providing
    7         for retroactivity; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (10) is added to section 61.13,
   12  Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         61.13 Support of children; parenting and time-sharing;
   14  powers of court.—
   15         (10) If a parent fails or refuses to honor a court-ordered
   16  time-sharing schedule in a parenting plan without proper cause,
   17  the nonoffending parent may bring a civil action against the
   18  parent who failed or refused to honor the court-ordered schedule
   19  for appropriate compensatory and punitive damages. The offending
   20  parent may raise an affirmative defense for his or her actions
   21  based on the defenses provided in s. 787.03(4). This subsection
   22  applies retroactively to January 1, 2014.
   23         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.