Legal Question in Family Law in Florida

If there is a Court Order granting the Father contact with the children, you must follow it, until the Court determines otherwise. If the children came to you and said they did not want to go to school, or bed or anything else, you would as a parent, make them. Of course you cannot use force, but you need to address this as any other issue in which, the children, are really not able to make their own decisions. Other than that, I would suggest seeking out a family counselor to help the children discuss with their Father, why, specifically, they don't want to spend more time with him, and if there is something they can do as a family, to work on these issues, rather than allow the issue to cause further hard feelings, between you, their Father and the children. There are often good family resource centers where children can go and discuss with others seperate family dynamics and how to learn to live happy. Don't allow the children to use you as a way to manipulate the situation and get what they want, which they may want for an unhealthy reason. Remember children between the ages of 12 and 17 don't often make decision based on the right reasons. You should be encouraging the relationship and reminding them that there are many children that do not get to see their Father at all, because he is dead, or doesn't want to be with them.