Q: I live in Florida with both of my birth parents. My brother's mother and father in-law's live in Utah.
Both sets of parents have agreed for the in-laws to have custody of me. How should we go about this?
A: There are certain requirements under FL law, which if they can qualify for, can file a petition for temporary custody by extended family. The parents need to consent to this, but if they do not, there can still be a case, it just makes it so that each parent has to be proven to be unfit by clear and convincing evidence. They simply cannot make it through a maze of the court system and all its rules without an attorney on their side.
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