March 2020

Alimony support payments impact your ability to pay your monthly bills. For most divorce causes an increase in the cost of living because the parties need to support two households instead of one. The alimony amount ordered in your case will make a big difference to your monthly bottom line. Often for years.   Below

What’s the one thing that you can do to make sure that you get the time that you want with your kids? And the answer is, you’ve got to be proactive and you’ve got to be aggressive. Of all the things that happen in a Tampa divorce, if you’re a guy and you want to

Simple Strategies You Can Use Right Away To Get The Best Child Custody Results In Florida Divorce Cases 1. Getting the best child custody results requires that you actively seek out responsibilities for the children that you didn’t traditionally do during the marriage. Parents often take on different responsibilities during an intact marriage. For example, a

What happens when a child comes to a non-custodial parent and expresses a desire to live most the time with one or the other? Can a child choose which parent to live with when the legal custody arrangement is being determined in Florida courts? Reasonable Preference of the Child A Florida judge has a lengthy

Looking to reduce alimony or end paying alimony? Paying alimony to an ex-spouse does not get easier over time. If anything it gets worse. Especially if you’ve remarried and are trying to plan for your future with your new spouse. Paying alimony may stink. But Florida Courts recognize that sometimes alimony needs to be changed

Prenuptial agreements are looked at with much greater scrutiny by the Courts than an average contract.  When analyzing a prenup, the Court will carefully examine the circumstances surrounding the agreement.  This is because the Court knows that when two people execute a prenuptial agreement they are in an emotionally complex situation as two people in

Going to court can be unsettling if not downright scary.  And more often than not in a divorce setting the first court hearing that you go to is a case management conference. At the basic level, a case management conference is like a “status check” for the judge to check on the case. The judge

  A Guide To Understanding The Relevant Financial Issues   Before addressing whether to keep your house or sell it after divorcing in Florida, you need to understand the concept of equity. Your home is an asset. The home is worth something. That something is the fair market value of the home. The market value is the