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.
