Recent Blog Posts
The Horror of Jointly Owning a Rental Property With Your Ex-Spouse
You might invite your friends for a lavish party when your divorce becomes final, but in most cases, you still have a few hurdles to clear before a time where you never have to interact with your ex-spouse again. If you and your ex have children, you are legally obligated to co-parent until your… Read More »
What Happens If You Do Not Abide by the Terms of Your Own Prenuptial Agreement?
Anyone who has had to live with meddlesome in-laws can tell you that one of the secrets to a successful marriage is making your own set of rules and customs with your spouse, just the two of you, and following them; eventually, your children will be part of the unique culture of your immediate… Read More »
Paying for Your Children’s College Education After Divorce
The prohibitive cost of education is a contentious issue, even in the most conflict-proof families. If you and your spouse can agree on the hierarchy of worst-case scenarios regarding your children’s college education, and to protect against these, you have cracked the code of co-parenting. More often, though, one person thinks it is worse… Read More »
What Is the Difference Between Rehabilitative Alimony and Bridge the Gap Alimony?
By now, you have heard that Florida no longer awards permanent alimony, but you were probably not a candidate for alimony anyway. If your spouse was out of the workforce for most of your marriage, or if her income is a fraction of yours, you will probably have to pay some alimony, but perhaps… Read More »
Parenting Plans for Unmarried Couples
For couples who have children together, co-parenting is the most difficult part of divorce. Everywhere you look, it is easy to find online content creators vociferously judging unhappily married people who wait until their youngest child turns 18 before they file for divorce, but if you are in that situation yourself, you easily understand… Read More »
Depletion and Depreciation of Marital Assets in Marriage and Divorce
Some couples, even after they take wedding vows promising to stay together for richer or for poorer, file for divorce when financial hardship pushes their relationship to the breaking point. Others have an unspoken agreement not to judge each other for spending beyond their means, and it works well for them until they decide… Read More »
Is a Postnuptial Agreement Your Ticket to a Painless Divorce?
Dating someone on an off again on again basis is common enough that Facebook created the “it’s complicated” relationship status option early in its history. Whether you are married is a simple yes or no question, though, at least as far as the courts are concerned. Case in point, if one spouse dies when… Read More »
Mediation in Post-Divorce Litigation
Many clients have a plan in mind when they visit a divorce lawyer for the first time. They know which marital assets they care the most about keeping and which marital debts they care most about avoiding, and unless they are delusional, they know whether theirs is a case where alimony is appropriate. If… Read More »
You Can Never Proofread a Prenuptial Agreement Too Carefully
For most students, sentence diagramming represents the utmost drudgery; it is the least fun part of school, even worse than long division. Future lawyers, by contrast, get a kick out of seeing prepositional phrases dangling from the main clause with acrobatic agility and subordinate clauses clinging tenuously to each other like atoms in a… Read More »
How Does the Length of Your Marriage Affect Your Divorce?
Approximately half of marriages end in divorce, but the longer you stay married, the more your chances of staying together until the end increase. Likewise, the length of your marriage affects how the court will likely divide your property. Florida’s equitable distribution laws do not assume that an equal division of marital property, and… Read More »
