Last September, I published a blog questioning why a relocating parent who was not the majority time-sharing parent is freely allowed to relocate without any consideration of the best interests of the child. At that time, the First District Court of Appeal had ruled that the relocation statute applied only to majority time-sharing relocating parents...
Divorce and post-judgment cases can involve complex issues that are beyond the expertise of even the most experienced family law attorney. Taxes, estate-planning, trusts, business valuations, vocational assessments, medical issues of a spouse or child, parental responsibility and timesharing, and financial planning needs are just a few of the areas that may call for the hiring...
Florida’s statutory child support guidelines were developed to ensure uniform child support awards across the state based on the combined incomes of the parents. But is this basic premise of fairness actually accomplished by the current guidelines? Probably not. Once the court has determined the parents’ combined net income under the child support statute, the...
Federal law mandates all states to have child support guidelines to ensure some measure of consistency in child support awards across the states. Florida child support guidelines are based on the combined incomes of the parents, calculated in a way that parents share child support proportionate to their incomes. Section 61.30, Fla.Stat. allows certain deductions...
Many of us don’t have a family member to count on when important life decisions need to be made and we are unable to make them. For the first time, the City of Tampa and Hillsborough County are joining together to offer county residents an opportunity to register their choice of a support person empowered...
When parents and their child/teen work together, cyberbullying can often be prevented or at least minimized or blocked. Regular communication between parent and child/teen about the child/teen’s online/social media usage, coupled with regular parental monitoring of the online/social media usage, can help ensure your child/teen’s safety from cyberbullying. If your child/teen knows that he or...
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