Recent Blog Posts
Alimony and Child Support Awards Are Based on Your Net Income, Not Your Gross Income
When drunken friends and rage-drunk YouTube personalities tell you that the court will order you to pay half of your monthly income to your ex-spouse every month until you have been divorced for as many months as you were ever married, you should not let it get to you, because that is not how… Read More »
Co-Parenting When One Ex-Spouse Is More Religious Than the Other
Religion is an important part of many families’ daily lives, but the family court is loath to interfere with people’s religious practices. Plenty of happily married people adhere to religious practices other than those of their spouse. In some families, Mom says her prayers every night while Dad scrolls through news headlines, and Mom… Read More »
Simplified Dissolution and Uncontested Divorce in Florida
Most divorces do not go to trial. Meanwhile, most divorce cases involve lawyers, and the cases where the parties start out representing themselves without hiring lawyers are often the ugliest of all; they are at least as likely to go to trial as the cases where the parties worked with lawyers from the beginning. … Read More »
Can a Prenuptial Agreement in Florida Do What Covenant Marriages Do in Other States?
Compared to their parents’ generation, a smaller percentage of American adults below the age of 40 are married, but a smaller percentage of marriages end in divorce. Lots of today’s young adults have divorced parents and are of the opinion that you should not marry someone unless you are sure that you want to… Read More »
Does Divorce Affect Your Permanent Residency Status?
Here in South Florida, a substantial percentage of children and young adults have at least one parent born outside the United States; at least one parent is a naturalized U.S. citizen, and one parent might have gotten permanent residency status upon marrying the other parent. Despite stereotypes about opportunistic singles who just want to… Read More »
Concealing Marital Assets Can Cause Problems Well Beyond the Divorce Case
Gray divorce, in which the parties are above the age of 50, is becoming increasingly prevalent. In the early days of no-fault divorce, many divorces took place among couples who realized rather quickly that they were not cut out for marriage, but the ones who made it past the ten-year mark were in it… Read More »
The Court Must Not Charge You Double for Child Support
C Corporation is arguably the worst business structure, because not only does the business have to pay taxes, but you, as the business owner, must also pay personal taxes related to it. Few financial situations are more frustrating than getting charged twice for something you were not especially keen to pay for in the… Read More »
Wage Garnishment for Unpaid Child Support Obligations
The law offers plenty of protections for people experiencing financial hardship. For example, United States law does not allow debtors’ prisons, and incarceration cannot be a punishment for failure to pay a debt. Federal bankruptcy laws enable financially distressed people to discharge many kinds of debts by filing for bankruptcy protection. Wage garnishment, where… Read More »
Can the Court Require You to Continue Paying Alimony After You Die?
As much as high-income spouses fear alimony orders during divorce, the court tries to divide couples’ assets in ways that do not require alimony payments, when this is possible. If the lower-income spouse is young enough and healthy enough for employment, then alimony awards tend to be of short duration, and the amounts are… Read More »
Selling the Marital Home In Divorce Is Not Always a Road to Riches
The web pages of divorce law firms will tell you that the goal in divorce is to divide marital assets in the fairest possible way; this is the meaning of “equitable distribution,” the rule that the Florida family courts follow when determining how to divide the marital property. Of course, compared to your own… Read More »
