2023 Family 16CME Bundled Courses

This course covers the stages of the mediation session, expected conduct, and expectations from the parties and the mediator.

Duration: 5 Hours | 5.5 Continuing Mediation Hours (Ethics, Diversity)

This course highlights pertinent Florida Child Support guidelines, found at Florida Statute 61.30 and the use of the Florida Supreme Court approved Child Support Work Sheet, 12.902 (e).  Students will follow the manual preparation of form 12.902 as well as the execution of a web-based form found on the Florida Supreme Court Self Help Center, Family Forms. Family Mediators are likely to assist a divorcing couples with minor children with the negotiations involving the child support. It is therefore, imperative for the Family Mediator to understand and know how to calculate such support, available resources and applicable rules governing child support calculations in Florida.

At times, they go as far as to invoke the moral fitness, lifestyle, race, and religious preference of a parent to determine legal and physical custody. What is does "The Child’s Best Interests" Really Mean? Can a court consider a parent's Race, Religion, morality, live style preferences? Which test is appropriate, the " Per se" or the "Nexus" Test to determine custody and when?

Restorative justice, indigenous justice & healing, human rights, victim services, criminal/juvenile justice, peacemaking, spirituality, forgiveness, reconciliation, mediation, conflict resolution, social change.