Make The Divorce Process Simpler
An interesting article that chronicles some of the momentous changes and shifting trends that have occurred in family law over the past few decades (and in a much more sweeping and rapid fashion in just the past few years) underscores many of the daily considerations...
If there's one central message that Mary Riedel, the CEO of a prominent shelter and advocacy program in Broward County, imparts to her audience in a recent interview, it is this: "Domestic violence has no one face."In stating that, Riedel is centering in on what she...
The long saga of a child custody battle pitting the state of Pennsylvania and an economically challenged and deported Mexican couple concluded last week with the couple's two children -- girls aged 4 and 8 -- being reunited with their parents in Mexico City.Both...
We referred to the "bedrock standard" of the best interests of the child in discussing Florida child custody law in a recent blog post (July 15). In doing so, we were taking into account the many factors that together help define what those best interests are. We...
Florida family law judges have a number of remedies available to enforce child support orders against persons with support duties. State revenue officials, too, have a wide array of enforcement tools at their disposal, including delinquency notices, Florida driver's...
The best interests of the child.That is the fundamental force and underpinning motivation -- the bedrock standard -- that drives child custody laws in every American state, including Florida. And although the goal is uniformly the same, the permutations and details...
When thirty-one percent of married respondents in a recent survey indicated that they were cheating on their spouses, they weren't talking about affairs with third parties.Rather, they were talking about deception regarding shared finances, or what is more commonly...
Actor Doug Anthony Hutchison was 35 years old when aspiring country singer Courtney Alexis Stodden was born. Sixteen short years later, and the couple is married.Is there a prenuptial agreement in the house? Most marriages commence with high hopes and dreams of a...
By all accounts, Barry Dougan -- the chief executive of the Credit Suisse Group -- is a very smart, successful and eminently sophisticated business executive, and that is exactly how the Connecticut Supreme Court chose to regard him in its recent ruling concerning the...
A recent media article highlights the amount it cost a host of famous female celebrities -- all more well-known and with higher salaries than their spouses -- to secure a divorce from their husbands.In most cases, the answer to that is short and simple: A lot....