Family court reform
Florida
Where Florida stands on each reform BMD tracks. General information, not legal advice.
Equal parenting time presumption
Passed
Makes an equal, or approximately equal, parenting-time schedule the legal starting point in a custody case. The presumption is rebuttable, and a court that orders something else has to say why.
Bill: CS/HB 1301 (2023), effective July 1, 2023
Statute: Fla. Stat. 61.13(2)(c)
Rebuttable presumption that equal time-sharing is in the best interests of the child; rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence.
Source: official bill or statute page
Reviewed 2026-10-06.
Deployed-parent custody protection
Passed
Enacts the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act: a military deployment by itself is not a reason to change custody, orders made for the deployment are temporary and end with it, and a deploying parent may delegate parenting time.
Statute: Fla. Stat. 61.703 et seq.
Enacted the uniform act. Citation taken from the National Conference of State Legislatures military parent custody list; not separately confirmed against the state code.
Source: official bill or statute page
Reviewed 2026-10-06.
Parenting time interference remedies
No bill yet
Gives a parent denied court-ordered parenting time a real remedy - make-up or compensatory time, costs, or a penalty - rather than leaving contempt as the only route.
No bill of this kind is cited for Florida at the last review.
Reviewed 2026-10-13.