The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . Section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (2016), allows for an award of support for a child who is between . . .
. . . Code § 46-101 (2018) ; § 743.07, Fla. Stat. (2018) ; Ga. Code Ann § 13-3-20 (2018); Haw. Rev. Stat. . . .
. . . ends once the child reaches the age of majority, "unless the court finds or previously found that s. 743.07 . . . Section 743.07(2), in turn, contains two provisions that authorize a court to extend a child support . . . We took care, however, to note that section 743.07(2)'s second provision, allowing modification of a . . . The second provision of section 743.07(2) is clear and unambiguous. Dyck-O'Neal, Inc. v. . . . Applying the plain language of the second provision of section 743.07(2), we conclude the circuit court . . .
. . . is without prejudice to the mother seeking a modification of child support on the basis that section 743.07 . . . initial order to modify the amount and terms and conditions of the child support payments ... if s. 743.07 . . . (2) applies ...."); § 743.07(2), Fla. . . .
. . . reached the age of majority unless the trial court has made a finding of dependence pursuant to section 743.07 . . . Section 743.07(1) provides that once a child-reaches the age of 18, they are no longer considered a minor . . .
. . . Section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (2016), provides: This section shall not prohibit any court of competent . . . performing in good faith with a reasonable expectation of graduation before the age of [nineteen], § 743.07 . . . to extend it beyond the child’s eighteenth birthday, based on the high school provision of section 743.07 . . . petition for continuing support for a dependent child pursuant to the high school provision section 743.07 . . . See § 743.07(2), Fla. Stat. (2016). . . .
. . . . § 743.07(1). . . .
. . . child’s 18th birthday with no showing that the child was otherwise legally dependent under section 743.07 . . . support to terminate on a child’s 18th birthday unless the court finds or previously found that s. 743.07 . . . the preceding twenty-four months when the child was a minor or qualified for support under section 743.07 . . .
. . . Section 743.07(2),'Florida Statutes (2015), clearly authorizes a parent to “file a petition seeking child . . . Lockmiller, 791 So.2d 552, 553 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001) (“[Nothing in section 743.07(2) suggests that the former . . . Accordingly, pursuant to section 743.07(2), the trial court had the authority to require the former wife . . . that child support orders terminate when the child turns 18 “unless the court finds ... that [section] 743.07 . . .
. . . court had subject matter jurisdiction to modify Husband’s child support obligation pursuant to section 743.07 . . . The Textual Framework of Sections 61.13(l)(a) and 743.07 Section 61.13(l)(a)(l)(a) states that “[a]ll . . . Finally, section 743.07 reads, in pertinent part: (1) The disability of nonage is hereby removed for . . . In fact, it is contemplated by the plain language of section 743.07(1), which merely lowered the age . . . Here, Wife did not file a petition to modify child support for the son pursuant to section 743.07(2) . . .
. . . See § 743.07(2), Fla. Stat. (2014). . . .
. . . See §§ 61.13(l)(a)l.a., 743.07(2), Fla. Stat. . . .
. . . support to terminate on a child’s 18th birthday unless the court finds or previously found that s. 743.07 . . . Section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes, allows a court to require child support payments for a child that . . .
. . . The trial court does, however, have continuing jurisdiction under sections 61.13(1) and 743.07(2), Florida . . . duty ceases after the "child’s eighteenth birthday unless the court finds or previously found that s. 743.07 . . . In turn, section 743.07(2) empowers the court to require support "for a dependent person beyond the age . . .
. . . See § 743.07, Fla. Stat. (2012). . . .
. . . the petition that M.S. was entitled to support until he graduated from high school, citing section 743.07 . . . She again cited to section 743.07. . . . Section 743.07(1) removes the disability of nonage for persons eighteen years of age or older. . . . However, section 743.07(2) provides as follows: (2) This section shall not prohibit any court of competent . . . This court also stated that “nothing in section 743.07(2) suggests that the former wife’s ability to . . .
. . . child reaches majority; if there is a substantial change in the circumstances of the parties; if s. 743.07 . . .
. . . Stat. (2010); § 743.07(2), Fla. Stat. (2010); Wattenbarger v. . . .
. . . support terminates should be listed as the child’s 18th birthday unless the court has found that section 743.07 . . .
. . . support terminates should be listed as the child’s 18th birthday unless the court has found that section 743.07 . . .
. . . face of the agreement of the parties and the order requiring the payment of child support from section 743.07 . . . unless the parent agrees to do so in a binding contract, or unless one of the exceptions to section 743.07 . . . In the matter before us section 743.07(2) should have played no role in the disposition. . . .
. . . court properly awarded long-term child support in 1992 for this couple’s child pursuant to section 743.07 . . . the couple as to this “special child” because it awarded long-term child support pursuant to section 743.07 . . .
. . . The mother argues that the MSA is against public policy in this regard, citing § 743.07(2). . . . Nothing in § 743.07(2) bars parents from providing, as these parents did, that his duty of support ends . . . She argues, however, that the parties “misinterpreted” § 743.07(2). . . . WARNER and DAMOORGIAN, JJ., concur. . § 743.07(2), Fla. . . .
. . . child is alleged to have committed a delinquent act or violation of law. (5) (a) Notwithstanding ss. 743.07 . . .
. . . Although section 743.07 of the Florida Statutes (1999) gives the trial court discretion whether to award . . . since children who are still attending high school at age 18 are in need of financial support, section 743.07 . . .
. . . This section may also work in conjunction with section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (2005), to effectively . . . Under section 743.07(2), a court may order support for a child who is over eighteen, dependent in fact . . . the preceding twenty-four months when the child was a minor or qualified for support under section 743.07 . . . nineteen during the twenty-four months preceding the petition, meaning the requirements of section 743.07 . . . It is unclear from this record whether the younger child meets the requirements of section 743.07(2) . . .
. . . unless the parent agrees to do so in a binding contract or unless one of the exceptions in section 743.07 . . . emancipated, or is/are otherwise no longer (a) dependent child(ren) pursuant to Sections 409.2554(2) and 743.07 . . .
. . . Section 985.201(4)(a), Florida Statutes (2002), provides: Notwithstanding ss. 743.07, 985.229, 985.23 . . .
. . . delinquent act or violation of law until the child reaches the age of nineteen: (4)(a) Notwithstanding ss. 743.07 . . .
. . . Section 985.201(4)(a), Florida Statutes (2005), provides: Notwithstanding ss. 743.07, 985.229, 985.23 . . . Notwithstanding s. 743.07 and paragraph (d), and except as provided in s. 985.31, the term of the commitment . . .
. . . See § 985.231(l)(d) (“Notwithstanding s. 743.07 and this subsection, and except as provided in ss. 985.201 . . . Notwithstanding s. 743.07 and this subsection, and except as provided in ss. 985.201 and 985.31, a child . . .
. . . Powers of disposition in delinquency cases * ⅜ * [l][a]l.d Notwithstanding s. 743.07 and paragraph (d . . .
. . . . § 743.07, Fla. Stat. According to records in our file, Carr was born on Marchó, 1981. ■ . . . .
. . . See §§ 61.13(l)(a); 743.07(2), Fla. Stat. (2003). . . .
. . . If the adult child satisfies the requirements of section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (2004), then both . . . We affirm without prejudice to the child’s potential claim for support, pursuant to section 743.07(2) . . .
. . . Notwithstanding s. 743.07 and this subsection, and except as provided in ss. 985.201 and 985.31, a child . . .
. . . Section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (2003), which is to be read in conjunction with chapter 61 of the . . .
. . . chapter 744, Florida Statutes (2002), were the only individuals authorized to seek support under section 743.07 . . . The mother had no continuing right to directly receive Devon’s section 743.07 payments for support without . . . is my view that the mother lost all authority to represent Devon’s interest or enforce any section 743.07 . . . Devon or a guardian appointed pursuant to chapter 744, Florida Statutes, has the right to seek section 743.07 . . . stipulation would result in a forfeiture of Devon’s right to claim support as a dependent adult under section 743.07 . . . father “to continue to contribute support” for Devon after her eighteenth birthday pursuant to section 743.07 . . . Section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes, provides that a court of competent jurisdiction can require parents . . . the mother’s life, Devon lived with the father and subsequently returned to live with the mother. . 743.07 . . . Clearly, Devon has a substantive right under common law (preserved by section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes . . .
. . . Both parents agreed that their children were disabled within the meaning of section 743.07(2), Florida . . .
. . . in the second amended final judgment of dissolution does not properly track the language of section 743.07 . . . We direct that the child support provision properly reflect the directives contained in section 743.07 . . .
. . . . § 743.07, Fla. Stat. According to records in our file, Carr was born on March 6, 1981. . . . .
. . . . § 743.07(1), Fla. Stat. (2001). . . . . § 743.07(2). . . .
. . . The mother and the son counter-petitioned for the establishment of support for the son under Section 743.07 . . . Section 743.07(2) reads in pertinent part: “This section shall not prohibit any court of competent jurisdiction . . . or a cause of action, but “saved” any common law right or cause of action from extinction by section 743.07 . . . Cyr and Baldi dealt with the statutory nonage change of section 743.07(1), Florida Statutes and whether . . . By Section 743.07(1), Fla. Stat. (effective July 1, 1973). . . . . In the portion of Baldi that is pertinent here, this Court quoted the language of Section 743.07(2), . . . The substance of the current Section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes, is the same as it existed at the time . . .
. . . . § 743.07, which removes the disabilities of a minor at the age of 18, and Fla. . . . Stat. § 743.07 provides "[t]he disability of nonage is hereby removed for all persons in this state who . . .
. . . See § 743.07(2), Fla. Stat. (2000). . . . Furthermore, nothing in section 743.07(2) suggests that the former wife’s ability to seek support for . . .
. . . Because the court had jurisdiction over Meleny at the time the petition was filed, section 743.07(2), . . . It should be noted that section 743.07 does not itself grant parental support to dependent children; . . .
. . . the court may retain jurisdiction until the child reaches nineteen years of age: Notwithstanding ss. 743.07 . . . Notwithstanding s. 743.07 and paragraph (d), and except as provided in s. 985.31, the term of the commitment . . .
. . . Although section 743.07 of the Florida Statutes (1999) gives the trial court discretion whether to award . . . since children who are still attending high school at age 18 are in need of financial support, section 743.07 . . .
. . . obligations for each child continue beyond 18 years of age in accordance with the provisions of section 743.07 . . .
. . . Compare BroWARD Co., Fla.Code § 16/6 -153(b)(1) (1999) with § 743.07(1), Fla. . . .
. . . Section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (1997), provides: This section shall not prohibit any court of competent . . . be entitled to a diploma, prior to his nineteenth birthday thus meeting the requirements of section 743.07 . . . reasoned that to hold the contrary would be an “incorrect application of the plain language of section 743.07 . . . nineteen several days prior to their graduation ceremony: We construe the term “graduation” in section 743.07 . . . Fourth District’s reading compatible with the “reasonable expectation of graduation” language of section 743.07 . . .
. . . . § 743.07(1) (West 2000), which curtails certain rights. See 25 FI. Jur.2d Fam. L. § 254 (1992). . . .
. . . In contravention of section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (1999), the trial court’s order also improperly . . . understanding that a petition to modify may be filed in the event that one of the exceptions of section 743.07 . . .
. . . the court may retain jurisdiction until the child reaches nineteen years of age: Notwithstanding ss. 743.07 . . .
. . . In Klauder, the court found the thrust of the revision to section 743.07(2) was to clarify the extent . . .
. . . This court presumed that the child support provision was included because of section 743.07(2), Florida . . . the child support obligation, this court reasoned as follows: [I]t is clear that the statute [section 743.07 . . . was appropriate because it met the criteria for continued support beyond age 18 pursuant to section 743.07 . . .
. . . Section 743.07(2) authorizes a court to require support for a dependent person beyond the age of 18 years . . . This case involves the graduation provision of section 743.07(2). . . . While there was some discussion involving the incapacity provision of section 743.07(2) at the modification . . . the age of 19.” § 743.07(2), Fla. . . . Therefore, the trial court erred in finding that the graduation provision of section 743.07(2) authorized . . .
. . . Stat. (1987), enter into a contract, compare § 743.01 with § 743.07, Fla. . . . Compare § 743.01 with § 743.07, Fla. Stat. (1987). . . .
. . . continue until the trial court determines that he is no longer dependent within the meaning of section 743.07 . . .
. . . The former husband appeals, arguing that, under section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (1995), and the cases . . . Section 743.07(2) provides that a trial court may require child support for a dependent beyond the age . . . Under the terms of [section 743.07(2) ] they are not entitled to support after their eighteenth birthday . . . to graduate high school, or for the application of such a concept in the interpretation of section 743.07 . . . The language of the order reflects an incorrect application of the plain language of section 743.07(2 . . .
. . . former wife, appeals an order denying a petition for modification of child support pursuant to section 743.07 . . . We construe the term “graduation” in section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes, liberally, especially under . . .
. . . Section 743.07(2) merely reaffirms a dependent adult child’s right to such support. . . . Section 743.07(2),. cited in the majority opinion and relied on by the trial court, does not contain . . . Specifically section 743.07(1), which became effective on July 1, 1973 and which is relevant to “in limbo . . . Florida Statutes § 743.07(2) and (3) applies in the instant case. 4. . . . See § 743.07(2), Fla. Stat; Perla v. Perla, 58 So.2d 689 (Fla.1952); Fincham v. . . .
. . . unless the parent agrees to do so in a binding contract or unless one of the exceptions in section 743.07 . . . HARRIS, J., dissents with opinion. . 743.07 Rights, privileges, and obligations of persons 18 years of . . . school, performing in good faith with a reasonable expectation of graduation before the age of 19. § 743.07 . . . Without explanation, Hammond ignored the mandate of the legislature contained in section 743.07(1), Florida . . . understanding that a petition to modify may be filed should it subsequently appear that one of the section 743.07 . . .
. . . the former wife to pay child support until the child reached the age of nineteen pursuant to section 743.07 . . . obligation to pay child support would continue until the child reached the age of 18, or pursuant to section 743.07 . . . provision be considered on remand, we note the subject provision accurately tracks the language of section 743.07 . . .
. . . See § 743.07(1), Fla. Stat. (1995). . . .
. . . Under section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (1995), child support may not be extended beyond the date of . . .
. . . child has a reasonable expectation of graduating from high school before her 19th birthday, section 743.07 . . . The husband moved for rehearing, arguing that the language of section 743.07(2) precludes such a provision . . . In section 743.07(2) the legislature established certain limited exceptions to the general rule that . . . been made here that the parties’ child is either mentally or physically incapacitated, for section 743.07 . . .
. . . The Hunter court acknowledged that section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes, authorizes an award of child . . . Id.; see, § 743.07(1), Fla. Stat. (1995). . . . had no evidentiary basis to extend the duration of child support beyond age 18 pursuant to section 743.07 . . . As the Hunter court observed, however, in the event one of the exceptions in section 743.07(2) subsequently . . . As the Goodwin court noted, the child support provision in Goodwin complied with section 743.07(2), unlike . . .
. . . Section 39.02(4) states: Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 743.07, when the jurisdiction of any child . . .
. . . This provision violates section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (1993). . . . Section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (1993), provides: This section shall not prohibit any court of competent . . .
. . . who owes duty of support to a child to pay support in accordance with guidelines in § 61.30); and § 743.07 . . . Grapin, 450 So.2d 853 (Fla.1984); § 743.07(2), Fla.Stat. (1993). . . .
. . . . * * * “(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 743.07, when the jurisdiction of any child who is alleged . . . That statute states: “Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 743.07, when the jurisdiction of any child . . . Section 743.07, then and now, provides that the disability of nonage is removed for persons 18 years . . .
. . . In my opinion, the husband’s point that the decree does not conform to section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes . . . Section 743.07(2) provides that a court of competent jurisdiction is not prohibited from requiring support . . . to the former husband, the provision at issue in the amended final judgment is contrary to section 743.07 . . .
. . . The issue on this appeal concerns the correct interpretation of section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes ( . . . The former wife contends, and we agree, that section 743.07(2) creates two separate situations upon which . . .
. . . for Marina during her final or senior year in high school, pursuant to the recently amended section 743.07 . . . retrospectively, and shall not affect the rights and obligations existing pri- or to July 1, 1973. § 743.07 . . .
. . . See § 743.07, Fla.Stat. (1993); Perla v. Perla, 58 So.2d 689, 690 (Fla.1952); Privett v. . . .
. . . We presume that the child support provision was included because of section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes . . . understanding that a petition to modify may be filed should it subsequently appear that one of the section 743.07 . . .
. . . Although section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (1991), allows a trial court to order support to be paid . . . FRANK, C.J., and DANAHY, J., concur. . 743.07 Rights, privileges, and obligations of persons 18 years . . .
. . . See § 743.07, Fla.Stat. (1991). . . .
. . . Walworth argues the order exceeds the limits of section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (1991). . . . Section 743.07(2) was revised in 1991, effective October, 1991, after this petition for modification . . . (emphasis supplied) Florida cases construing section 743.07(2) prior to the 1991 revision generally require . . . We conclude that the 1991 revision to section 743.07(2) should be applied to this case rather than prior . . . we certify to the supreme court the following as a question of great public importance: DOES SECTION 743.07 . . .
. . . Harper appeals an order terminating her adult daughter’s status as a dependent child under section 743.07 . . . dependent “because of a mental or physical incapacity which began prior to [her] reaching majority,” § 743.07 . . . term “incapacity,” but it seems clear that a broader definition is intended for that term in section 743.07 . . .
. . . court determination that her adult daughter is not a dependent person under the provisions of section 743.07 . . . establishes that the parties’ daughter meets the requirements for continued support pursuant to section 743.07 . . .
. . . See § 743.07, Fla.Stat. (1991). . Fla.R.App.P. 9.030(a)(2)(A)(iv). . See, e.g., Stokes v. . . .
. . . .” § 743.07(2), Fla.Stat. (1989). . . . We note that in 1991 the legislature amended section 743.07(2) by deleting reference to crippled children . . . school, performing in good faith with a reasonable expectation of graduation before the age of 19." § 743.07 . . .
. . . of imprisonment which an adult may serve for the same offense_ Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 743.07 . . . Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 743.07 and subsection (b), and except as provided in s. 39.058, . . .
. . . . § 743.07(1), eighteen is recognized as the age of majority. . . .
. . . The governing statutory provision in this matter, section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes, was amended October . . .
. . . See § 743.07, Fla. Stat. (1989); Hoffman v. . . .
. . . However, section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes, was amended, effective October 1, 1988, to read: “This . . . condition constituted a dependency, in addition to his economic incapacity, which suffices under section 743.07 . . .
. . . Nonetheless, section 743.07(2) as amended was not argued before the trial court even though the hearing . . .
. . . . § 743.07, Fla.Stat. (1973). . . . Section 743.07 operates prospectively, not retrospectively, and will not affect any rights and obligations . . .
. . . twenty-one, apparently because the final judgment of dissolution predated the enactment of section 743.07 . . .
. . . support ends upon a child’s reaching his or her majority, unless he is dependent as provided in section 743.07 . . .
. . . See also section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (specifically authorizes courts to order parental support . . . It has been well established in case law since the passage of section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes, that . . .
. . . addition, the court found that both girls are economically dependent within the meaning of section 743.07 . . .
. . . dispose of property by will, § 732.501, Fla.Stat. (1987), enter into a contract, compare § 743.01 with § 743.07 . . . Compare § 743.01 with § 743.07, Fla.Stat. (1987). . . .
. . . The age of majority was reduced to 18 years on July 1, 1973, Section 743.07, Fla. Stat. (1973). . . .
. . . As Section 743.07, Florida Statutes, provides that a person ceases to be a “minor” at the age of 18, . . .
. . . to determine whether Wade was a dependent person entitled to support within the meaning of section 743.07 . . . Keenan, 440 So.2d 642 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983) (en banc). 2 Section 743.07 Fla.Stat. (1983), states: 743.07 . . . I believe the legislature understood that reality in enacting section 743.07(2), Florida Statutes (1985 . . . convincing rationale in Evans, coupled with a realistic interpretation of the legislative intent in section 743.07 . . . child is still attending high school does not make that child dependent within the meaning of section 743.07 . . . does not transform an otherwise ineligible adult child into a dependent as contemplated by section 743.07 . . .
. . . Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 743.07, no child shall be held under a commitment from a court pursuant . . .