Make The Divorce Process Simpler
Central to the American legal system is the expectation of every litigant that the arbiter of a dispute will be equally fair to all parties.In other words, a core notion concerning the judiciary is that a judge will not favor one party over the other in a legal...
Family law issues in a divorce, whether in Florida or elsewhere, can range from one or just a couple matters that are resolvable without undue difficulty to more intractable and complex matters that require close consultation with an experienced divorce attorney.Child...
Protecting the future.In a nutshell, that is really what marital contracts -- either a prenuptial agreement, executed prior to marriage, or a postnuptial agreement, negotiated and signed after marriage -- are all about.Another important feature of such contracts is...
Alimony has been a hot-button topic in Florida for some time. Given the recent movement of a bill through the state Senate, major changes to what is called permanent alimony are now on the horizon and could take effect from July.Alimony -- also referred to as spousal...
One way that a state, including Florida, can go about collecting delinquent child support payments is to levy on lottery winnings. That was amply seen recently following a New Jersey man's huge payday of about $152 million after taxes for winning a nearly $340 million...
Former professional football star and hall-of-fame player Deion Sanders -- nicknamed Neon Deion and Prime Time -- openly cultivated and firmly grabbed headlines during his playing days. Now, in their aftermath, and despite his desire to strike a low-profile pose in at...
"I don't know of anything that's ever been this big," says one family law professor.There are divorce settlements and then there are really big divorce settlements, and what the professor is talking about qualifies as the latter in uppercase.For readers who might not...
Always volatile, and sometimes associated with tragic outcomes, is the domestic violence that can unfortunately feature in some couples' relationships. Abuse in a family -- whether spousal/partner abuse or child abuse -- is always sad and often owes to a complex...
Some divorces are marked by pronounced acrimony that spills over to myriad aspects of a dissolution, including property division, child custody determinations, child support and numerous other matters.Some aren't.Indeed, many couples find that, notwithstanding the...
Famed basketball player Michael Jordan has been involved previously in high-profile family law matters, including his 2006 divorce from ex-spouse Juanita Jordan. That dissolution reportedly involved a property division settlement that awarded Juanita Jordan nearly...