Removing Or Conceling A Child
Removing or conceling a child
It is unlawful for any person, in violation of a court order, and personal knowledge of the order to lead, take, entice or remove a minor child beyond the limits of Florida, or to conceal the location of a minor child.
It is unlawful for any person, with criminal intent, to lead, take, entice, or remove a minor beyond the limits of Florida, or to conceal the location of a min or during the pendency of any action or proceeding affecting custody of child , after having received notice as required by law of the pendency of the action or proceeding, without the permission of the court in which the action or proceeding is pending.
It is unlawful for any person, with criminal intent, to lead, take, entice, or remove a minor beyond the limits of Florida, or to conceal the location of a minor child during the pendency of a depencedy proceeding affecting such minor child or during the pendency of any investigation, action, or proceeding concerning the alleged abuse or neglect of such minor, after having received notice of the pendency of such investigation, action, or proceeding and without the permission of the state agency or court in which the investigation, action or proceeding is pending.
It is unlawful to fail to produce a minor child. It is unlawful for any person, who has carried beyond the limits of Florida any minor child whose custody is involved in any action or proceeding pending in Florida pursuant to the order of the court in which the action or proceeding is pending pursuant to the permission of the court, thereafter, to fail to produce the minor child in the court or to deliver the minor child to the person designated by the court.
What to do next: Obtain certified copies of any court order that compliance with the following:
1. To facilitate enforcement in other court, the order or final judgment must set forth the basis for the court’s exercise of jurisdiction
2. The order of final judgment should set forth the penalties and/or sanction, criminal and civil if the child is abducted. In order to enforce the order or judgment against a party, the party must have a personal knowledge of the order and its consequences.
3. The order of judgment must set forth clear removal or relocation restrictions.
Remedies for denial of contact without good cause: When a parent refuses to honor a parent’s time sharing rights without proper cause, the court must, after calculating the amount of time-sharing improperly denied, award the parent sufficient amount of extra time sharing to compensate the parent, which time sharing must be ordered as expeditiously as possible in a manner consistent with the best interest of the minor child and scheduled in a manner that is convenient for the pepsin deprived of time sharing. In ordering any make up time sharing, the court must schedule such time sharing in a manner that is consistent with the best interest of the minor child or children and that it is convenient for the parent.
