Recent Blog Posts
Can Domestic Violence Cases Ever Lead to Peaceful Co-Parenting?
You can never tell from looking at someone what they have been through during the times before you met them. Someone might have a good relationship with his teen children and be on reasonably good terms with his ex-wife, but their divorce may have involved much more drama than you could imagine, and perhaps… Read More »
Does It Really Take Two to Divorce?
You might have heard people complain that they want to divorce, but their spouse refuses to go along with the process. Divorcing a stubborn spouse is no fun, but it is no worse than being married to a stubborn spouse. At least two reality TV stars from Florida have publicly commented that their estranged… Read More »
Are Permanent Alimony and Returning to the Workforce Your Only Options After a Long Marriage?
Certain social media accounts are dedicated to instilling in young men the fear that a pretty young thing will steal their hearts, and no sooner will the ink dry on the marriage certificate than she will be asking for permanent alimony. As many clicks as these accounts may get, and as entertaining as their… Read More »
Negotiating With Your Ex-Spouse About Parenting Is Exhausting, but a Family Law Attorney Can Help
Someone once said that having a child is like seeing your heart walking around outside your body. As such, seeing the way other people interact with your child can trigger emotions you never knew you had. You never thought your spouse was shallow until you heard the things she said about what people would… Read More »
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 »
