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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 61
DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE; SUPPORT; TIME-SHARING
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61.527 Temporary visitation.
(1) A court of this state which does not have jurisdiction to modify a child custody determination may issue a temporary order enforcing:
(a) A visitation schedule made by a court of another state; or
(b) The visitation provisions of a child custody determination of another state which does not provide for a specific visitation schedule.
(2) If a court of this state makes an order under paragraph (1)(b), it shall specify in the order a period that it considers adequate to allow the petitioner to obtain an order from a court having jurisdiction under the criteria specified in ss. 61.514-61.523. The order remains in effect until an order is obtained from the other court or the period expires.
History.s. 5, ch. 2002-65.

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Giventer v. Giventer, 863 So. 2d 438 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2003 Fla. App. LEXIS 19740, 2003 WL 23095388

...See § 61.1308(l)(a), Fla. Stat. (2001). 1 Although the current statutes concerning enforcement of visitation provisions are not clear when applied to the instant fact situation, we conclude that the father’s proceeding to compel summer visitation fell within section 61.527, concerning “temporary visitation.” That statute provides as follows: (1) A court of this state which does not have jurisdiction to modify a child custody determination may issue a temporary order enforcing: (a) A visitation schedule made by a court of another state; or (b) The visitation provisions of a child custody determination of another state which does not provide for a specific visitation schedule. § 61.527(1), Fla....
...s to enforce its own visitation provisions as well. However, because the parties’ agreement did not set out a specific schedule for summer visitation, the Broward court’s order on the father’s motion to compel summer visitation falls within subsection 61.527(l)(b); 2 thus, the Broward court should have specified a period in which the father had to obtain an order from a court *440 having jurisdiction to modify under section 61.514-.523....
...POLEN, J., concurs specially with opinion. . Effective October 1, 2002, the UCCJA, sections 61.1302-.1348, was amended and renamed as the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) and renumbered as sections 61.501-.542, Florida Statutes (2002). . Subsection 61.527(2) provides as follows: (2) If a court of this state makes an order under paragraph (l)(b), it shall specify in the order a period that it considers adequate to allow the petitioner to obtain an order from a court having jurisdiction under the criteria specified in ss....

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