13th Judicial Circuit
PARENT COORDINATOR REQUIREMENTS

In order to be considered for the 13th Judicial Circuits Approved Parent Coordinator List, you must meet the following requirements:

1. Licensure as a mental health professional pursuant to chapters 490 or 491, Florida Statutes, or licensure as a physician pursuant to chapter 458, Florida Statues, with certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology;
2. Three years of post licensure practice;
3. Completion of a Florida Supreme Court certified family mediation training program; and
4. A minimum of 20 hours of parenting coordination training covering all of the learning objectives provided in Attachment B: Comprehensive Parenting Coordination Training.

OR

Service as a parenting coordinator in four or more cases before July 2005 may be substituted for the requirements of paragraphs A and B, if the parenting coordinator also has completed a minimum of four hours of domestic violence training provided by the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence or another training program approved by the Florida Supreme Court. 

 ***The 13th Judicial Circuit SHALL NOT appoint a person to serve as a parenting coordinator who, in any jurisdiction:

1. Has been convicted or had adjudication withheld on a charge of child abuse, child neglect, domestic violence, parental kidnapping or interference with custody;
2. has admitted to having or has been found by a court in a child protection hearing to have, abused, neglected, or abandoned a child;
3. Has consented to an adjudication or a withhold of adjudication of a petition for dependency; or
4. Is or has been a respondent in a final order of protection against domestic violence.