Make The Divorce Process Simpler
Couples in the Miami, Florida, area who are dealing with divorce may also be considering child custody arrangements. A post-divorce parenting plan can be complex, but should consider the best interests of the child or children as well as the needs of the parents....
Scores of Florida children have not received the financial assistance they need because their child support payments have been delayed. You may think that this phenomenon is caused by so-called "deadbeat" parents -- but you would be wrong. In fact, the state is...
Couples considering marriage or divorce in Miami-Dade County, Florida, may have considerations related to stipulations for marriage. Premarital agreements provide some protection of finances and other matters when someone enters into a marriage, but they can also be...
What's with the divorce rate?That is the very simple question asked in a recent family law article written by Robert Hughes, Jr., a university professor. The professor's brief biography appended at the end of his piece written yesterday in the Huffington Post states...
Recent national attention being focused on family law-related legislation in Alabama serves as a reminder that many states -- including Florida -- impose a class requirement on divorcing parents with children.The would-be Alabama law is still at the fledgling stage,...
Immediately following is a depiction of post-divorce life in a few short words that is far from a hypothetical for many ex-spouses in Florida and across the country.It goes like this: Your former spouse agreed to pay certain things like child support and spousal...
A recent Forbes article cites data from the United States Census Bureau indicating that, sadly, the financial terms of divorce agreements are honored less than half the time by ex-husbands.That can understandably lead to a high level of angst and frustration -- as...
When the United States began pulling out of what many Americans call the Great Recession of recent years in 2009, the divorce rate nationally was reportedly at its lowest in about four decades.As the economy began to once again pick up steam and a sustained momentum,...
Since the 1996 enactment of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, states have been allowed to forgo legal recognition of same-sex marriages entered into and deemed legal in other states. The law long enabled states barring same-sex marriages to argue against the...
Unquestionably, much in media articles focused on marital dissolution seems to stress, well, the stress.Granted, angst, dislocation, anger, nervousness and a lot of other assorted feelings can come to prominence immediately preceding, during and following a divorce....