Monthly Archives: October 2025
The Rights of Divorced Parents With Disabilities
Regaining your self-confidence after a divorce is a challenge, but ultimately it is rewarding. If you received a diagnosis of a disability before or after marrying your spouse, this might mean that you are well versed in advocating for yourself and celebrating your strengths, or it might mean that you feel even more overwhelmed… Read More »
Can You Change Your Alimony or Child Support Obligations Without Going Back to Court?
Family court documents such as marital settlement agreements, parenting plans, and child support orders are meant to be durable enough to prevent future litigation, but nothing is set in stone. Parenting plans are meant to last until the youngest child reaches adulthood, but parents sometimes need to modify them because of changes to the… Read More »
Can You Borrow Money When Your Divorce Case Is Pending?
Recently divorced people make up a disproportionate share of the applicants for chapter 7 and chapter 13 bankruptcy. It isn’t because they splurged on a divorce party, a new wardrobe and cosmetic surgery for their glow up makeover, subscriptions to dating websites, and alcohol to take their minds off their loneliness. Rather, recently divorced… Read More »
Disputes Over Jurisdiction in Divorce Cases
“Jurisdiction” is an impressive spelling bee word, but when you learn its meaning in elementary school, it does not make much sense. You have never had to think about what it is or is not the court’s business to decide, and it never crossed your mind that different courts might have authority over different… Read More »
The QDRO Can Be a Lifeline After Gray Divorce
Just as Florida has abolished permanent alimony, divorce cases are on the rise among people over 50. Getting divorced later in life means rethinking your plans for retirement, and if you depended on your spouse’s income throughout your long marriage, it is no longer an option for the court to order your ex-spouse to… Read More »
The Role of Appraisals in Equitable Distribution of Marital Assets
You can tell how messy a divorce is by counting the number of witnesses summoned at the trial. The couples with the ugliest divorces disagree about every aspect, great and small, of their marriage. To settle the score, they might summon a forensic accountant to testify about the value of the assets that the… Read More »
You Don’t Have to Pay Alimony to Support Your Former In-Laws
The courts only award alimony when one spouse will still require financial support from the other to maintain a standard of living comparable to the couple’s financial situation during the marriage, even when the court has used all other possible solutions. For example, the court divides marital assets in ways that will give the… Read More »
What Does It Feel Like to Be Newly Divorced?
No two divorce cases are exactly alike, so there is variation as to how much the moment your divorce becomes final registers as a watershed event. It might just feel like a piece of paperwork you are relieved to receive, especially if your marriage ended long before you filed for divorce. Maybe you have… Read More »