Blog Posts in July, 2014
Posted on Jul 22, 2014 By Jay Butchko
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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Posted on Jul 22, 2014 By Jay Butchao
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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Posted on Jul 18, 2014 By Jay Butchao
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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Posted on Jul 18, 2014 By Jay Butchao
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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Posted on Jul 10, 2014 By Jay Butchao
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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Posted on Jul 10, 2014 By Jay Butchao
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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