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Nassau County, Florida Parents Currently Must Travel to Jacksonville to Exercise Supervised Timesharing ? But Maybe Not for Long

By Janet Langjahr

In northern Florida, some parents have been traveling to Jacksonville, in another county, to exercise or to facilitate supervised visitation.

Because Nassau County does not currently have a supervised visitation center of its own.

The gas expenses and the travel time make exercising timesharing burdensome for parents of limited means.

As a result, much allowed timesharing is not actually exercised.

So local attorneys are trying to raise the $25,000 that, together with matching funds from the Jacksonville supervised timesharing facility, could fund a local visitation center.

Supervised timesharing might be court-ordered for any number of reasons, including history of:

• domestic abuse and/or child abuse

• substance abuse

• mental illness

• threats of child abduction

Read more in this Nassau County [FL] Record article: New location could link children to parents.

Full post as published by Florida Divorce - Child Custody - Domestic Abuse Law on April 17, 2010 (boomark / email).