Child Custody Agreement - Florida

Florida Child Custody Agreement and Parenting Plan

Before you use this: Complete the selected schedule and safety terms, then submit this signed plan for court approval. This agreement does not itself replace an existing court order.

Court and family

Parent A: [FULL NAME], address [________________], telephone [________________], email [________________].

Parent B: [FULL NAME], address [________________], telephone [________________], email [________________].

The parents submit this proposed parenting plan for court review under Fla. Stat. §§ 61.046(14) and 61.13. Its ordered terms take effect on the date stated in the approval order.

Identify each party's first pleading or attached sworn affidavit providing the child-custody information required by Fla. Stat. § 61.522(1): Parent A [title and date: ________________]; Parent B [title and date: ________________]. The parents identify any UCCJEA, interstate-order, or international child-return issue above for the court's jurisdictional review under § 61.046(14)(b).

1. Parental responsibility and decisions

☐ Shared parental responsibility. The parents will confer on major decisions and make them together, except for an allocation expressly selected below.

☐ Shared responsibility with allocated final decisions. The parents will confer first; if they cannot agree after [____] days, Parent [A/B] has final responsibility for [specific subject: ________________].

☐ Sole parental responsibility proposed for Parent [A/B]. The factual and safety basis for this request is [________________]. The court will apply the shared-responsibility default and the sole-responsibility provisions in § 61.13(2)(c)2. and 5.

School-boundary and registration address: [________________]. The parent exercising time-sharing may make ordinary daily decisions during that period, subject to the allocations above and any court order. In an immediate emergency, the parent with the child may obtain needed care and will notify the other parent as soon as reasonably possible by [method: ________________].

The parents will share child-related information through [method: ________________]. Access to medical, dental, and school records remains subject to any court order or domestic violence injunction restricting that access. See § 61.13(2)(c)7.

2. Ordinary time-sharing

Choose one schedule and complete its details. Attach a dated weekly calendar if this table does not describe every overnight. The court determines the child's best interests under § 61.13.

☐ Alternating weeks: exchange each [DAY] at [TIME], beginning [__/__/____].

☐ Weekday/weekend rotation below.

☐ Other repeating cycle: [________________].

First cycle begins [__/__/____]. If school is the exchange point, the fallback place when school is closed is [________________]. Holiday and vacation terms below control for their selected dates; the ordinary cycle then resumes [without reset / as follows: ________________].

☐ Optional first offer of care: when a parent cannot personally care for the child for more than [____] continuous hours during that parent's scheduled time, that parent will offer the other parent the opportunity by [method] with [____] hours' notice when practicable. The other parent will respond within [____] hours. This parent term is subject to court approval.

3. Holidays, breaks, and vacation

Write dates and exchange times. "Alternating" means Parent A in [even/odd] calendar years and Parent B in the other years. For a holiday left blank, the ordinary schedule applies.

Summer schedule: ☐ ordinary cycle continues ☐ alternating [____]-week blocks ☐ [________________]. Each parent may reserve [____] vacation days with [____] days' written notice. If requested dates conflict, use this priority rule: [________________]. Travel details will be shared by [method] at least [____] days before departure, unless the court orders otherwise.

4. Exchanges, transport, and communication

Regular exchange location(s): [________________]. Authorized alternate location(s): [________________]. Pickup at the beginning of Parent A's time: [________________]; at the beginning of Parent B's time: [________________]. If safety requires a neutral or supervised exchange, specify the location, supervisor or program, and costs here: [________________]. The court may require a safe exchange location when the findings in § 61.13(2)(b)5 are met.

A parent expecting to arrive more than [____] minutes late will contact the other parent by [method] as soon as practicable. Medication, school materials, and essential belongings will accompany the child as follows: [________________].

The child may communicate with the other parent during each parent's time by ☐ telephone ☐ video ☐ age-appropriate messaging, on [days/times: ________________]. The arranging parent will use [device/platform: ________________]. Parent-to-parent messages about schedules and decisions will use [method: ________________]; urgent child-safety messages will use [method: ________________].

5. Health, school, and activities

The parents will exchange provider and school contact information within [____] days after a change. Health-care appointment notice and attendance: [________________]. Insurance and uninsured expense terms, if addressed by a separate support order, are identified here solely for coordination: [court/order/date or "to be determined": ________________]. This plan itself sets no child-support amount.

Homework, attendance, and school notices: [________________]. Activity enrollment and transportation: [________________]. Child care or after-school care: [________________]. A parent proposing a new recurring expense will discuss it with the other parent by [method], subject to any separate order.

6. Safety and special needs

Safety concern disclosed to the court: ☐ none known ☐ domestic violence ☐ abuse or neglect concern ☐ substance-related concern ☐ other [________________]. Relevant injunction or safety order: [court, case number, date, and terms: ________________]. Nothing in this plan changes that order without further court action.

☐ Supervised time-sharing proposed for Parent [A/B] at [location], supervised by [name/program], on [schedule].

☐ Neutral or supervised exchanges proposed at [location], conducted by [person/program].

☐ Additional child-specific protection, accommodation, or service: [________________].

The parents request that the court evaluate all applicable detriment and best-interest factors under § 61.13 before approving any shared responsibility, time-sharing, or safety term.

7. Relocation and changes

For a proposed move that meets the distance and duration definition in § 61.13001(1)(e), the relocating parent will follow the statutory agreement or petition route. A written relocation agreement requires consent of the parents and every other person entitled to access or time-sharing, a revised schedule, and necessary transportation terms. If an existing court action, judgment, or decree concerns the child's residence or time-sharing schedule, the parties shall seek court ratification of that agreement under § 61.13001(2)(b). Without the agreement described in § 61.13001(2), § 61.13001(3) requires a petition and service. This paragraph is neither relocation consent nor a relocation petition.

Any proposed change to ordered parental responsibility or time-sharing terms will be submitted to the court for approval. The court applies § 61.13(3)'s substantial-and-material-change and best-interest requirements to modification. The parents may record temporary practical adjustments in writing at [method], but those adjustments do not alter the court order.

The parents may discuss disputes by [method], seek mediation by mutual agreement when appropriate, or seek court relief. No private arbitration is selected for custody, time-sharing, or child support; § 44.104(14) excludes those disputes from that section.

8. Parents' signatures

By signing, each parent asks the court to review this proposed plan. Any attachment is identified here: [schedule or safety attachment and date: ________________]. The parents have completed selected blanks and resolved inconsistent choices.

Parent A signature witnessing

State of Florida, County of [________________]. Sworn to or affirmed and subscribed before me by means of ☐ physical presence or ☐ online notarization on [__/__/____] by [PARENT A NAME].

Notary public or deputy clerk signature: [________________]. Printed name: [________________].

☐ Personally known ☐ Produced identification; type: [________________].

Parent B signature witnessing

State of Florida, County of [________________]. Sworn to or affirmed and subscribed before me by means of ☐ physical presence or ☐ online notarization on [__/__/____] by [PARENT B NAME].

Notary public or deputy clerk signature: [________________]. Printed name: [________________].

☐ Personally known ☐ Produced identification; type: [________________].

Proposed order approving parenting plan

In the Circuit Court of the [____] Judicial Circuit in and for [________________] County, Florida

Case No. [________________]; Division [________________]

The court has reviewed the parents' signed proposed parenting plan and the case record. The court finds jurisdiction and venue on this basis: [________________]. After considering the child's best interests and Fla. Stat. § 61.13, the court:

☐ Approves this plan as written and incorporates it into this order.

☐ Approves the plan with these written changes, which control over conflicting plan language: [________________].

☐ Declines to approve the plan for these reasons: [________________].

Specific findings concerning parental responsibility, time-sharing, safety, and any departure from an applicable equal-time-sharing presumption: [________________]. Any existing injunction or order that remains operative is identified here: [________________]. The approved plan takes effect [__/__/____] and may be enforced or modified only as the law permits.

Ordered in [________________] County, Florida, on [__/__/____].

Circuit Judge: [________________]