Out of State (or Non-local) Visitation

I have numerous clients who do not reside in Florida or even the United States.  There are certain complexities involved when creating a time-sharing schedule or visitation schedule when parents do not live in the same geographical location.   Obviously, it is not practical for a parent to receive normal weekend visitation of time-sharing when they are a great distant from the child(ren).  It becomes even more difficult to exercise regular visitation when the child enters school and gets involved with extra-curricular activities, friends, sports, etc.  To overcome these issues, we often look to develop a visitation schedule that allows the parent with whom the child does not reside to have substantial parenting time during the summer, winter break or Christmas break, and spring break.  I also encourage those clients who have the child to make him/her available to the other parent in the child’s locale upon reasonable notice.  There is also the issue of child support that must be addressed and how the transportation costs of the visitation will affect the amount of support to be paid, if any.