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Florida · 2025 Regular Session
S0246Grandparent Visitation
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 by removing prior requirements of parental death, unfitness, or harm, and by allowing petitions when parents are divorced.
A grandparent of a minor child may petition the court for court-ordered visitation with the grandchild under this section if the minor child’s parents are divorced or if one or both of the minor child’s parents are deceased, missing, or in a persistent vegetative state.
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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 revises grandparent visitation statutes to broaden eligibility for petitions (when parents are divorced or one/both are deceased/missing/in PVS) and removes a prior presumption favoring visitation in certain death cases, affecting the balance between parental rights and grandparent access in private family disputes.
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