There are many questions to ask when hiring a divorce attorney. But here’s one you may not have thought of: Is there an assistant you can call for questions without worrying about being billed? Many lawyers bill for everyone in the office, even when all you need is to ask a few questions about the...
Can custody agreements be changed? I have a client whose daughter no longer wants to visit her dad, despite a shared parenting agreement that splits her time with both parents. The daughter is 13 and, as anyone who has raised a child probably knows is entering a time of life when priorities change. For a...
No divorce is emotionally painless. Very few are conflict-free. But if your divorce — probably like your marriage — falls into the high-conflict category of divorces, you may be married to/divorcing a spouse with a personality disorder and/or is highly manipulative. What is a personality disorder? My layperson definition would be simply a person whose...
I recently read about a nineteen year old young man who had just become acquainted with his birth father. He was struggling to support himself while attending community college and looking for answers about his newly discovered father’s obligation to pay back-owed child support. The young man sadly learned that his father owed him...
For a variety of reasons, some parents don’t try to collect unpaid child support. Or maybe they try to collect and eventually give up — again for a variety of reasons. That’s really a personal issue between the parents so long as the custodial parent is adequately supporting the child. But children grow up and...
It’s been one year since the U.S. Supreme Court made same-sex marriage lawful in every state, including Florida. Not only were Florida same-sex marriages legalized, but Florida courts are now also obligated to recognize the validity of same-sex marriages that took place in other states before the Supreme Court’s ruling. As liberating as this decision was...
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