Alimony reform seems under full steam in many states throughout the country, and the debate surrounding it is rife with complexities.Florida is often cited as a state where there is aggressive agitation for reform. In a prior blog post (November 21, 2011), we...
Month: January 2012
Report: Growing financial upside for many women post-divorce
In years past, research strongly indicated that women who divorced usually suffered financial crisis, while the man's income increased. Times are changing. In a recent report released by Pew Research, a Washington, D.C., organization that has a pulse on changing...
Feds augment child support collection efforts with deadbeat website
The term "deadbeat parents" is well understood by most providers in Florida and other states who fulfill their family responsibilities by caring adequately for their children. There are certainly situations in which loving and well-intentioned parents simply run into...
Thinking about, making life following divorce optimally fulfilling
Divorce, with attendant issues that can include child custody, child support, property division and other matters, can be problematic even under the most agreeable terms, but life after divorce does not have to be. Setting your intentions early on following a divorce...
Child custody battle spotlights Indian Child Welfare Act
When a couple from South Carolina walked out of a hospital in 2009 with their newly born adopted daughter in their arms, they could scarcely have contemplated that two and a half years later they would be enmeshed in a child custody battle with the Cherokee Nation.In...
January is “Divorce Month” for many couples
"Divorce is ultimately a very personal decision, and what's best for you doesn't have anything to do with the date on the calendar."Having said that, one divorce consultant interviewed by a national publication acknowledged as well what many of her professional peers...
Florida appellate court decides “unique” same-sex custody case
Calling it "a unique case," and stating that "the appellate courts in Florida have never before considered a case quite like it," a state appeals court in Daytona Beach ruled last month that a Brevard County judge erred in a child custody case involving a same-sex...
If kids could draft the divorce settlement
Divorce can bring out frustrations and emotions in everyone involved, but the stakes get even higher when children are involved. Not only do divorcing couples in Florida and nationally sometimes use their children as pawns in their conflict and often battle over...
Rise, fall of Miami Heat star reflected in child support arrears
With a pending bankruptcy case, a federal judge must now rule on whether the delinquent child support case against former NBA All-Star Antoine Walker can proceed. A circuit judge recently said he could not take action on the back child support and delinquent school...
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