Unless you have a simplified and uncontested divorce, there will be depositions and hearings related to your case before any final hearing. These are hearings that I encourage you to attend, even when you aren’t required to testify. I’ve had some clients say they would rather have me just take care of it. They want...
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...
There’s no doubt that going through a divorce can be a crazy time. People often can be at their worst when their marriages are breaking up and they must negotiate serious life issues like joint parenting and fair division of property. But there is a difference between ordinary divorce angst and the type of behavior...
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...
When I last wrote about grandparent visitation rights in Florida, the Florida appellate courts had declared the majority of the then-existing grandparent visitation statute unconstitutional. In 2015, the Florida Legislature revisited the issue and passed a new version of Chapter 752 Grandparent Visitation Rights. The new statute applies to only a relatively small subset of...
There used to be a sign in the Hillsborough County courthouse: No flip flops, shorts or tank tops. I haven’t seen it for a while and I don’t know what happened to it. Maybe someone decided that you shouldn’t be telling the public what to wear. I wish, however, that I could tell female attorneys...
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