Monthly Archives: April 2025
Parenting Plans for Adoptive Parents
Florida’s family law code is based on the assumption that it is in children’s best interest to have a stable relationship with both parents, even if the parents are not married to each other and do not live together. It also respects the rights of parents to spend time with their children and make… Read More »
Divorce in an Abysmal Housing Market
Remember when you and your newlywed spouse bought your dream home together in South Florida? Everything felt like a celebration. You gleefully closed the hurricane shutters to ride out one storm after another. You removed dead lizards from the pool deck instead of waiting for your spouse to do it. You paid the air… Read More »
Wishful Thinking Is Not an Appropriate Financial Strategy, According to Family Law Attorneys
There are more possible answers to the question of which spouse keeps the marital home than you might expect. If the house was nonmarital property before the couple married, the court usually awards it to the spouse who originally bought it and orders him or her to pay an equalizing payment to the other… Read More »
What Counts as an Involuntary Reduction in Income?
Being your own boss sounds like fun until your dream of running your own business comes true. Suddenly, all the problems of the business are your problems and no one else’s. If the business is not financially solvent, neither are you, and by extension, neither is your spouse. Anyone who has tried their hand… Read More »
Can In-Laws Ruin Your Divorce?
Even in couples who are committed to staying together, in-laws are a frequent source of conflict. Some divorced people who, to this day, think of their spouse as the one that got away and wish that they could have done something to save their marriage, will admit that they do not miss their spouse’s… Read More »
How to Have a Less Messy Divorce
Did you hear about the judge who had to decide whether the documents a woman had found in the dumpster behind her husband’s office were admissible as evidence in their divorce case? Did you hear about the celebrity who bought a house in Miami, where he and his ex-wife lived together with their children,… Read More »