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...
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...
Under Florida law, the requirements for filing a divorce action are not complicated. Florida does not recognize “fault,” such as a spouse’s infidelity or squandering of money on an addiction, as a legal grounds for divorce. Florida is a “no fault” state. Instead, Florida requires that your marriage is considered “irretrievably broken.” This fact should...
Spoofing is an illegal tactic used by some spouses to fabricate evidence that can be used against the other spouse in divorce litigation. Spoofing involves entering a fake telephone number to appear in another person’s caller ID instead of the actual originating phone number. Why would someone do this? To falsify evidence that the other spouse is making...
Data from personal computers and cell phones is becoming a rich source of evidence for family law attorneys. Your family law attorney will instruct you to make sure that you have a secure email to receive attorney-client communications. If you simply change your password, you will need to make sure it is a password your spouse cannot...
High conflict parents should work toward eliminating as much face-to-face contact as possible. When face-to-face contact has to occur, it is helpful for that contact to take place in a very public place with lots of other people around. This not only provides witnesses in case things get out of hand, it tends to discourage hostile behaviors...
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