Legal Question in Family Law in Florida

Re: Family law question

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You need to go back to court and bring this to the Court's attention. The earlier order was based on a representation that the child would be attending daycare. If the child is no longer attending daycare, this is a material change that would warrant an amended order and recalculation of the amount of child support.

Neither parent is allowed to do anything that would interfere with the other parent's relationship with the child. The mother should be expressly prohibited from advising the child to call her new husband "daddy" or any variation thereof. The ex wife should do nothing to encourage any alienation of the child's affections for you. Frankly, if she persists, this would be enough to have some judges reconsider who is better able to serve as the primary residential parent.

Scott R. Jay, Esq.