I thought about getting divorced for 10 years before I went to see Jeanne to talk with her about representing me. I wanted her as my attorney because it was general knowledge in the community that she is a champion of women in divorce issues. I’m a man, but I thought to myself Why not...
No visit to Jeanne Coleman’s law office is complete without a quick chat with her office bird, a friendly cockatiel named Theo. Theo first chirped into Jeanne’s life in 2010 as a Mother’s Day gift from her daughters, Laura and Sarah. He was the store bird at a local pet store where Laura heard...
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...
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...
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