Author Archives: Jay Butchko
What Happens If Your Ex-Spouse Does Not Follow The Parenting Plan?
Drafting a parenting plan is a big project. It is not just a matter of filling in numbers on a form, such that the children are with you for X days per year and with your ex-spouse for (365-X) days. The parenting plan also includes details about transportation, holidays, and non-emergency medical care, in… Read More »
What Happens If Your Ex Does Not Exercise His/Her Parenting Time?
The school year is about to begin, and divorced parents feel the same mixture of sadness and relief that their married counterparts feel. It was nice not to have to drag your kids out of bed in time for school every morning, but you won’t miss coming home from work in the evening and… Read More »
Can The Court Stop You From Spending Your Own Money Or Taking Out Loans During A Divorce?
Did you know that Sylvester Stallone earns $1 million per episode of Tulsa King, a series that has yet to debut? When you consider that Stallone is 76 years old, it raises several questions related to various aspects of the law. An estate planning lawyer would likely use Stallone’s example to show how people… Read More »
3 Simple Ways To Make Your Divorce Less Expensive
If you have just made up your mind to get out of your marriage and looked up the cost of hiring a divorce lawyer, you are probably reeling from the sight of the triple digit hourly rates. If the cost of hiring a divorce lawyer is bad news, the worse news is that you… Read More »
How To Make Changeovers Painless For Kids And Co-Parents
Things are fine when the kids are at Mom’s house and equally fine when they are at Dad’s house, but going from one parent’s house to the other is a constant source of stress. Dad is always late picking up the kids from Mom’s house. Mom is always mad if Son leaves his bowling… Read More »
A New School Year, A New Parenting Plan?
All parenting plans are modifiable. Most newly divorced parents look at the final court order of dissolution of marriage and mentally calculate the number of years, months, and days until their youngest child turns 18, because that is when your ex-spouse can no longer have a veto vote about how much money you spend… Read More »
What Happens To The Marital Property In A Marriage Annulment?
Annulment of marriage is when the court declares that a marriage never existed. Most annulments happen very shortly after the marriage ceremony, because the parties quickly realize that they are unsuitable marriage partners for each other. Millennials will remember that, for exactly one weekend in early 2004, Britney Spears was married to her childhood… Read More »
Who Gets To Keep The Pets In A Divorce?
Sometimes the most painful aspect of divorce is fighting over possessions that have modest resale value but to which both spouses are deeply emotionally attached. The situation is even worse when those possessions are not things, but rather beloved family pets. To add insult to injury, the court tends to see things in terms… Read More »
Divorce Disputes Over Intellectual Property
The most valuable things in life are not things. Judges in family law court know this, but the only way to disentangle couples from each other’s futures is to reduce everything to dollar amounts. Intellectual property has a long history of defining and regulating what it means to own an idea and what you… Read More »
Digital Assets And Florida Divorce
Earlier this year, geriatric millennials everywhere breathed a sigh of despair when they found out that Dr. Dre’s classic album The Chronic is now available only as a nonfungible token (NFT). Even people who own numerous NFTs are at a loss to explain what they are. Everyone understands, however, why the court ordered Dre… Read More »
