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Florida · 2025 Regular Session
S0124Grandparent Visitation Rights
Direction
Custody & supportotherAI label
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 90%
Expands the circumstances in which grandparents can petition for court-ordered visitation with a minor child over a fit parent's objection, including new scenarios based on a parent's death, disappearance, vegetative state, prior household residency, and threat of harm to the child.
A grandparent of a minor child whose one parent is deceased, missing, or in a persistent vegetative state may petition the court for court-ordered visitation with the child under this section if: 1. The child resided in the same household as the grandparent for at least 6 months during the 12-month period immediately preceding the parent’s death, disappearance, or persistent vegetative state; 2. The child did not live in the same household as the other parent for at least 6 months during that preceding 12 month period; and 3. Eliminating the child’s contact with the grandparent would pose a 3.
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Status: Failed
Last action
2025-06-16: Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends grandparent visitation statutes to expand the ability of grandparents to seek court-ordered visitation in additional circumstances involving a parent's death, disappearance, vegetative state, prior co-residency, or threat of harm, and adds a presumption favoring visitation in cases of parental liability for the other's death. Per the topic definition, easier grandparent visitation over a parent's objection restricts the axis of the paying/less-custodial parent's rights (here, the surviving parent's rights against nonparent claims). No other listed topics are substantively and 3
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