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Florida · 2026 Regular Session
S1150Grandparent Visitation
Direction
Custody & supportotherAI label
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 90%
Expands the circumstances in which grandparents can petition for and receive court-ordered visitation with a minor child over a fit living parent's objection, by removing prior requirements of parental death, unfitness, or harm.
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
2026-03-13: Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill revises grandparent visitation law by broadening the situations where grandparents may seek court-ordered visitation (now including divorce of parents) and eliminating prior requirements to show parental unfitness or significant harm to the child. This expands grandparents' rights to seek visitation at the expense of fit living parents' authority, which restricts the less-custodial or paying parent's side under the custody-support axis. It also deletes a prior presumption favoring visitation in parental-death-by-other-parent cases, which expands parental rights in those scenarios.
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