Make The Divorce Process Simpler
We recently wrote about alternatives to a traditional divorce in Florida. One of those alternatives is a collaborative divorce. Our earlier warning that the collaborative process might not be the best choice for every couple still rings true -- which is why seeking...
Planning ahead is something that many people do on a regular basis. We plan for budgets, vacations, doctor's appointments and even retirement. But there are some plans that are harder to make. For example, many people may not want to make plans for a divorce before...
Divorce can have a significant impact on a person's retirement plans, especially for individuals getting divorced after the age of 50. The closer a person is to retiring, the more of a hit their retirement funds may take when getting divorced.This is because spouses...
Trey Powell, a resident of Seattle, says that he engaged in a lot of self-reflection and internally asked himself lots of questions before he began his walk down the path of becoming a single father through surrogacy.“I had to be sure it was the right thing to...
You could be a Florida resident who is thinking about divorce and wondering how you might best proceed.If that describes you, you are certainly not alone. Obviously, many marriages end in divorce, and divorcing parties in a good number of those often wonder how to...
One family law commentator notes that newly divorced parents, as well as their kids, have some learning to do as the calendar marches steadily and quickly toward the advent of a new school year in Florida and nationally.If you weren’t divorced last year at this...
Last month on our blog, we wrote about how married couples who argue about financial issues early in their marriage are more likely to split up. It is fairly well established that disputes over money are one of the leading reasons for divorce in Florida and around the...
The concept and reality has been termed “grandfamilies,” denoting a family arrangement where family units are headed by grandparents, either living together with multiple family generations or residing solely with their grandchildren.That family coupling...
As this blog has noted in a few prior posts, family law matters involving high-profile media figures can be instructive beyond the mere entertainment value they provide for some readers through gossip tabloids and televisions shows.In fact, is it precisely that wide...
Many readers of this blog might perhaps be familiar with the term “frivolous litigation,” which denotes the idea that a petitioner before a court has not brought a claim worthy of merit that should command the court’s attention and energies.Sometimes...