On a typical first visit to a divorce attorney, a parent often wants to talk primarily about which parent “gets the kids”. This is no longer correct thinking under current Florida divorce law. As discussed in a recent blog, the terms “custody” and “visitation” have been removed from the Florida divorce statutes. It is now...
One of any parent’s greatest fears in divorcing a spouse can be the loss of custody and contact with their children. Many new clients assume that it’s a win-lose situation. They will either get primary custody of the children or the other parent will be awarded primary custody, with the losing parent being relegated to...
When Tragedy Strikes – Ask The Court to Temporarily Stop or Permanently Reduce Your Support Payments
I once talked with a new client who was court ordered to pay child support several years ago. A few months after he was ordered to pay child support, he was involved in a terrible accident that left him unable to work. He didn’t realize that he could ask the court to abate or temporarily...
Parents can disagree about a lot of things, and as a family law attorney, I’ve found one of them is whether or not there should be guns in the house. Not infrequently, divorce clients have told me of their concerns when the other parent is a gun owner or “has an arsenal” that is kept...
In most divorce and post-divorce cases, the children of divorced parents spend identical amounts of time with each parent; for example, all three children of Joe and Jan Jones spend every other week with each parent. Child support is pretty easy to calculate when this is the case. But what if one of Joe and...
How many businesses have regulations that parents are expected to support their kids? In the United States, the armed forces do. It’s policy that service members will be dutiful in providing for their children. Failure to pay child support is considered dishonorable; the Navy states that it “will not be a haven or refuge for...
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