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Divorce Goals Are Not One Size Fits All
Making you feel bad about yourself is the point of social media. You might see tabloid content about a celebrity’s adorable divorce, with pictures of recently divorced spouses celebrating their child’s birthday together or going on a double date with their new partners. Your coworkers and former classmates who are divorced might also make… Read More »
Supervised Parenting Time Orders Do Not Include an Automatic Reversion to the Previous Parenting Plan
Improving your relationship with your children, perhaps even officially increasing your parenting time, is an admirable goal for the new year. If the court has ordered you to exercise supervised parenting time only, you may feel like you face an uphill battle. Supervised parenting time orders mean that another adult, as indicated in the… Read More »
New Year’s Resolution: Making Peace With Your Divorce
You knew that feeling discombobulated while your divorce was pending was normal, but why do you still feel lost now that your divorce is final? Being single after an unhappy marriage is not the exciting adventure that the lifestyle influencers said it would be; at least, it is not that was for you. A… Read More »
How Does Inherited Property Affect Your Divorce Case
When you are living paycheck to paycheck, inheriting money from a deceased relative sounds like a dream come true, since it will bring relief to at least some of your financial problems. In reality, it is less glamorous, and it often creates as many problems as it solves. Specifically, it might upset the routine… Read More »
How Much Can the Divorce Court Micromanage Your Mental Health?
Sometimes the narrative about mental health seems to be changing. Social media personalities who post content about their experiences with depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues attract millions of viewers. Clinical psychologists, mental health counselors, and other mental health professionals find their services in such high demand that many of them have changed… Read More »
How Long Must You Financially Support Your Disabled Ex-Spouse After a Brief Marriage?
Couples take wedding vows to stay together in sickness and in health, but often, chronic ill health erodes relationships, and sometimes it leads to divorce. When this happens, this divorce court must uphold the principle of equitable distribution while accounting for the fact that one of the spouses cannot reenter the workforce, even though… Read More »
Does an Alimony Award Have to Put You on Equal Footing With Your Ex-Spouse to Be Fair?
Equitable distribution, where the goal is to distribute the couple’s marital property and debts fairly, but not necessarily equally, varies depending on the length of the marriage. If the marriage was brief, the goal is to disentangle the parties’ finances as if they had never been married. If they were married for 17 years… Read More »
Divorced Dads Rule
Don’t believe all the web content about how what women want in a man is money, six pack abs, or a dominant personality. When you look at who gets the most dates on dating apps or, more importantly, who has the highest conversion rate from posting a profile on a dating app to deleting… Read More »
Does Florida Have a Jolene Law?
In insurance claims and lawsuits arising from car accidents, the insurance companies or the court will always decide who is at fault for the accident. Sometimes one driver bears all of the fault, and in some cases, each driver bears a share of liability. The insurance company or court can even decide that some… Read More »
Do You Dare to Keep Your Property Separate When You Get Married?
Few experiences in life are more painful than lengthy divorce battles, where a judge must decide how to divide the couple’s marital property. This is a major reason why so many people hesitate to get married. Relationships are difficult, anyway, and so are finances. It is another reason why young people are embracing prenuptial… Read More »