Tag Archives: Boca Raton Divorce Lawyers
Snooping or Gathering Evidence In A Florida Divorce Could Land You In Trouble
In contentious divorces, the spouses may feel the need to gain any advantage over each other, and may feel that any means of gaining that advantage is acceptable. This sometimes leads to spouses spying or snooping on each other during the course of their divorce, in an attempt to get evidence against each other. … Read More »
Same Sex Divorces In Florida
Since the United States Supreme Court decided the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, same sex marriages have been legal and recognized throughout the country. Florida’s ban on same sex marriages had been ruled unconstitutional several months before the Supreme Court’s decision. The legalization of same sex marriages has meant that same… Read More »
Dating Someone New While Going Through A Divorce
Divorces are not always resolved as fast as the divorcing couple would like. If the couple has complicated issues, or chooses to go through a legal separation before going through the full divorce, the time from when the couple calls it quits to when the divorce is finalized could be years. Because of this,… Read More »
Dissolving A Common Law Marriage In Florida
Going through a ceremony, even an informal one at the courthouse, in which a couple becomes married in order to receive the legal benefits of marriage, does not appeal to everyone. Sometimes for one reason or another, couples who have been in long term committed relationships prefer not to go through a formalized marriage…. Read More »
Taking Care When Using Social Media During A Divorce
It is the world we live in; almost everyone uses social media for one reason or another, and there are multiple social platforms to accommodate different people’s needs. Whether you use it for keeping in touch with others, or simply expressing your innermost thoughts, the use of social media during a divorce opens you… Read More »
Keeping The Family Home After A Divorce
There are many changes that a couple and their children go through when the parents decide to divorce. The children need stability and constancy to help them with the major change they are going through. For this reason, one of both parents may want to hang on to the family home after the divorce…. Read More »
Reaching An Agreement Out Of Court
In Florida, before a couple go to trial in a contested divorce, the law requires the couple to go through mediation. Mediation can be a low cost alternative to going to trial if the spouses can come to an agreement on most of the issues through negotiation. Mediation also helps speed up the divorce… Read More »
Can You Be Ordered To Pay For Your Child’s College Expenses After A Divorce?
When child support is calculated as part of a divorce, it is usually ordered to last until the child reaches eighteen years of age or until nineteen years if the child is still in high school at the time. A parent’s obligation to support a child, including by paying for educational expenses, usually do… Read More »
The Rise of the Gray Divorce
Sharon and Ozzy, Kris and Bruce, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. These celebrities spent a majority of their lives together, but then split when people thought that they had truly made it. Whereas divorce has become increasingly common in the past decade, it was not until very recently that divorce amongst older couples –… Read More »
To Keep the Family Home or to Sell it? What to do in a Florida Divorce
In most Florida divorces, the big question – outside of “who gets the kids?” – is, “What should we do with the family home?” Monetary value aside, couples have a hard time separating from their family home for emotional reasons. Oftentimes the family home represents security and stability during an otherwise emotionally trying time…. Read More »
