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Blog Posts in 2014

Veterans' Benefits and Alimony in Florida

When handling issues such as alimony, each state has different statutes and laws. How your state deals with these issues can positively or adversely affect you; and understanding the laws in your ...
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How Divorce Can Affect Your Children

When getting a divorce, many parents are concerned about the visitation agreement and how often they will get to see their children, the holiday schedule, and child support payments. Parents try to ...
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Expenses to Consider Outside of Child Support

At the onset of a divorce, many experts suggest that you change your electronic life, including shared social media accounts and passwords. But your Facebook and Twitter passwords are not the only ...
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How to Get a Protective Order

When you are in an abusive relationship, you may not know how to get out of it. Making the decision to get a protective order can be the first to end the cycle of violence. An experienced attorney can ...
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Paper Changes to Make Upon Entering Into a Separation or Divorce

At the onset of a divorce, many experts suggest that you change your electronic life, including shared social media accounts and passwords. But your Facebook and Twitter passwords are not the only ...
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Health Effects to Watch Out For During Divorce

Divorce has surprising health effects of which you might not be aware, but knowing what you may be in for and keeping a close watch will help. Also, hiring an attorney can be helpful in reducing the ...
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The Centrality of the Court to Time-Sharing Arrangements

It is hard to overstate the importance of a court's decision-making process when it comes to visitation and time - sharing arrangements. Florida law is emphatic that courts—and only ...
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Automatic Termination of Alimony Upon Death in Florida

For many types of family law payments, including alimony and child support, there are laws and statutory provisions that govern modifications. Payments as originally conceived are not set in stone, so ...
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The Difficulty of Succeeding in an Annulment Claim in Florida

Divorce is by far the most common way couples get out of their marriages. Strictly speaking, however, it is not the only way: as in other states across the country, Florida law recognizes that ...
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Paternity and Naming a Child in Florida

Traditional approaches to surnames—a wife taking her husband's name, a child being automatically given the surname of the father—is entrenched even in today's society. Cultural ...
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Subsequent Children and Child Support in Florida

Modern families are complex. People have children in and out of marriage; and, even in marriages, couples that have children often divorce, remarry, and form new families. According to a 2011 Pew ...
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Florida Supreme Court Holds Divorce Lawyer Accountable

Familial disputes, especially and including divorces, can be difficult to resolve. Legislators, courts, lawyers, advocacy groups, and the parties themselves are all integral components in the realm of ...
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Divorce Ruling is Third in Recent Florida Same-Sex Marriage Cases

In 2002, well before same-sex marriage was legal in any state in the U.S., two women entered into a civil union in Vermont. The relationship lasted for a number of years; but the couple split up in ...
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Patterns of Divorce Changing Among Educated Couples

There has long been a perception, supported by numerous studies, that married couples in which the wife is more educated than the husband are more likely to divorce. Indeed, according to one ...
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Religious Considerations in Florida Child Custody Determinations

In Florida, as elsewhere, determinations of child custody are made based on what is in "the best interests of the child." When awarding custody to one parent or another after a divorce, a ...
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Supervised Visitation in Florida

The ability of a parent to visit with a child is of paramount importance to the state of Florida. Sometimes, child custody arrangements via time - sharing plans are relatively simple affairs. They ...
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Spousal Support Without Divorce in Florida

Occasionally, a unique familial situation arises in which one party seeks support from another without also seeking a divorce. In certain religious contexts, for example, spouses may be uncomfortable ...
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Enforcement of Child Support Orders in Florida

In Florida, as elsewhere, the non-payment of child support by a non-custodial parent is considered a uniquely intolerable offense. Therefore, the law provides for a number of serious and creative ...
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No-Fault Divorce in Florida

In 1971, Florida joined a growing the number of states to allow no-fault divorce. Today, under Florida law, divorce (or dissolution of marriage, as the statute calls it) can only be granted for one of ...
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Complying with the Florida Paternity Statute

The issue of paternity —the determination of whether a person is the legal father of a child—may at first seem simple. Florida paternity statutes allow paternity to be established in a ...
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Modifications of Child Custody/Time Sharing Arrangements in Florida

In Florida, child custody determinations—"time-sharing," as it is called—are made based on what is in the "best interests of the child." This is a standard that arises ...
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Florida Courts Reinforce Child Time-Sharing Policy

Florida somewhat uniquely combines several concepts of child custody and visitation into a scheme known as "time-sharing." Essentially, though a post- divorce child may reside with one ...
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Florida Divorce Rate on the Rise

Between 1940 and 1980, the national divorce rate doubled. However—despite common wisdom to the contrary—after 1980, the divorce rate fell dramatically. By 2009, it had dropped by a third, ...
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The Alimony Reform Effort in Florida

Last year, Florida Governor Rick Scott vetoed a bill that would have fundamentally changed the laws of alimony in this state. Alimony reform—as the effort to change alimony laws throughout the ...
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Child Support & College Under Florida Law

This fall millions of 18-year-old students will enroll in colleges and universities across the United States. And while a recent Wall Street Journal editorial debated the virtues of parents financing ...
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