IN FLORIDA DIVORCE CASES, the court is required to make an equitable distribution of marital property. Florida is not a “community property state.” In community property states, like California, the courts are required to distribute marital property equally. In equitable distribution states, like Florida, marital property distribution may or may not be equal, but must be equitable […]
IN TODAY’S COMPLEX SOCIETY, estate planning can be more complicated than ever. Many families are “blending,” as couples divorce, remarry and share custody of children from different relationships. Each time a change occurs in a primary relationship, whether marriage, death, birth of a child, and certainly, divorce, it is time to re-evaluate your estate plan. In […]
CAROL AND RON Carol* and Ron, who is 10 years Carol’s senior, have been married for 22 years, and now Ron has filed for a divorce in Florida. The couple has one minor child, Alex. During the marriage, Carol was the primary breadwinner. Ron moved with Carol all over the country to follow her job […]
BETWEEN 1990 and 2010, the divorce rate doubled among adults 50 and older, according to a study conducted by the National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green University. About one in four divorces occur between middle-aged to senior couples. For those in second or third marriages, this rate is 2.5 times higher. According […]
FOR YEARS, your spouse worked and made a good income—enough to support the family. Now you are divorcing, he or she has decided to quit his or her job. Or perhaps your spouse got laid off and can’t find comparable work. Maybe your spouse is working in a different job now that you are separated, […]
NOT EVERYONE who visits an attorney to discuss divorce is ready to pull the trigger. Sometimes, one spouse may have just discovered the other spouse has had an affair, and in a highly emotionally charged state, he or she makes an appointment with an attorney to get more information about divorce. Other clients may have been contemplating […]
FLORIDA LAW requires divorcing parents of minor children to create a Parenting Plan. The purpose of the plan is to set forth clearly how the parents will share time with the children—essentially; it gets everything in writing and everyone on the same page. A Parenting Plan is required even if both parents say they agree on […]
IS THERE SUCH A THING as “legal separation” in Florida? It depends. Many Florida family lawyers would probably tell you there is no such thing as legal separation in Florida. They would be right in that there is not a process like you might find in other states whereby a judge enters a judgment declaring a […]
WHEN ONE SPOUSE has a relationship with another party outside the marriage during the course of a marriage, it can be an incredibly painful emotional experience for the other spouse, with significant consequences. In a divorce proceeding, it may be the natural inclination of the wounded party to want to use evidence of the affair in […]
MEDIATION is a non-judicial dispute resolution process in which opposing parties come together in an attempt to resolve their differences with the help of a neutral, impartial third party. The process typically is informal and the third party is not in a position of power or authority, rather the role of the third party is simply […]
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