My son (15yo) decided he wanted to live with his dad in another state(AZ) in order to attend highschool earlier this year. Child custody and vistitation rights were established along with child support (I pay for a change). Until then, I had been the primary custodial parent. Recently events have changed in that household (stepmom was fired) which has prompted father to push my son back to FL. I disagreed to this. Father displayed emotiionally abusive action by showing the email of my dissent to my son. Now father is preventing any and all communication (including visit. rights) for both myself and grandparents with my son. What actions can I take in order to enforce what rights I have as non-custodial parent? I do not want to go to trial because of retribution son might endure.

If he is not complying with the court order, you need to file a petition for contempt. Have you browsed through the information in LawInfo's Free Legal Resource Center to learn more about your issue yet? See: http://www.lawinfo.com/consumer.html and http://resources.lawinfo.com/en/index.html. You can certainly try to speak to a lawyer to determine what legal options may be available. In the meantime, you may be able to learn more on your own. Search the "Free Legal Resources" tab, or browse the Consumer Resources. Good luck.

Yes a petition for contempt is in order here. You should also know that if the contempt is bad enough, the Judge can deem the other parent UNFIT under the NEW LAWS and that parent can LOSE their right to 50 percent time split.

Custody has been eliminated under the new Florida Law, replaced by "shared parental responsibility" and 50 percent time split.

My advice to the moderator is, before you make any more statements about what can happen to a Florida parent in these forums you should familiarize yourself with the Family Law Rewrite Act of 2003. (This is friendly advise). Florida is UNIQUE in how family law works and what you know is probably inapplicable in Florida.

Here's a link to the new law:

http://childrens-justice.org/papers/...write-2003.htm