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Posted on May 2, 2013 By Kelly Tobaygo
The short answer to why you are going is because it is probably required; there are some counties around the Tampa Bay area (Hillsborough, for example) that require mediation before a divorce case can ...
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Posted on May 1, 2013 By Kelly Tobaygo
The first step in almost all divorce cases is an initial consultation with an attorney, or multiple attorneys. Most people arrive for a consultation with a list of questions they want answered or ...
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Posted on Apr 30, 2013 By Kelly Tobaygo
If you have been researching divorce online, you have probably come across the terms “contested” and “uncontested”, but might not know the difference. Generally speaking, a ...
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Posted on Apr 29, 2013 By Kelly Tobaygo
One of the most common questions clients ask their family law attorney is “How long will my case take?” The answer to this question, like most things in family law, is often difficult to ...
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Posted on Apr 23, 2013 By Stann Givens
Late in the day on Thursday, April 18th, the Florida House of Representatives passed the same alimony bill that successfully made it through the Senate. The Governor is expected to sign it into law ...
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Posted on Apr 22, 2013 By Stann Givens
The Florida legislature is changing the alimony statute. One of the things they are doing is redefining what will be the basis for alimony. For years, the standard of living during the marriage has ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2013 By Stann Givens
The Florida Senate has passed a bill eliminating permanent alimony and a similar bill is expected to pass in the House of Representatives and become law on July 1, 2013. Consider the following ...
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Posted on Apr 18, 2013 By Blair Chan
In a collaborative divorce, the divorcing spouses, their respective attorneys, and the other professionals involved all sign a participation agreement. The agreement outlines how the professionals ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2013 By Blair Chan
A collaborative divorce is an alternative to a traditional litigated divorce. In a collaborative divorce, the decision making power is placed squarely in the hand of the divorcing parties. The focus ...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2013 By Stann Givens
The Florida legislature is considering monumental changes to the alimony laws. The bill deals with more than alimony, but drastically affects alimony so it is being referred to as the “alimony ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2013 By Damien McKinney
The Third District Court of Appeal entered a ruling in an interesting case where a spouse requested an increase in her alimony payments based upon inflation and cost of living increases. In Silverman ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2013 By Damien McKinney
There is currently a bill going through the Florida state house and senate that would seek to make drastic changes to the alimony law in Florida. The house bill, which is titled CS/HB 231, was ...
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Posted on Feb 22, 2013 By Damien McKinney
The Third District Court of Appeal recently held that a Wife cannot receive alimony if she does not properly plead for it. In McClain v. McClain, the Husband filed a petition for dissolution of ...
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Posted on Feb 18, 2013 By Kim Byrd
Consider the following facts. You have been married 18 years. Your wife is from New York, which is where you were married and where you have lived ever since. You have a son who is now 14. You moved ...
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Posted on Feb 11, 2013 By Kim Byrd
Is there really such a thing as no cost divorce ? If you are willing to do some work on your own and qualify for a waiver of the filing fee, there is. Standard forms have been developed and approved ...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2013 By Kim Byrd
I have purchased several cars during my lifetime. The purchase usually involves about a month’s worth of Saturday afternoons spent looking at different makes and models and finding the ...
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Posted on Feb 4, 2013 By Damien McKinney
If you are ordered to pay alimony to your spouse, the Court might also order that you secure the alimony obligation by maintaining a life insurance policy that names your spouse as a beneficiary. A ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2013 By Blair Chan
Alimony reform may be coming (again) to Florida. There is a bill pending before the Florida Legislature that seeks to reform (yet again) Florida’s alimony laws. However, this bill has a ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2013 By Damien McKinney
Judges handling divorce cases in Florida are required to make specific findings of fact when awarding alimony. In Gray v. Gray, the Former Husband appealed the trial court’s ruling awarding the ...
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Posted on Jan 8, 2013 By Kelly Tobaygo
When most people think of a trial, they picture what they have seen on TV: a jury of their peers, and an attorney making passionate arguments trying to persuade this jury to vote in their favor. In ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2012 By Kim Byrd
Your child support or alimony can generally be modified upon a substantial change of circumstances such as a reduction in your income. The restriction is that the reduction in income must be ...
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Posted on Nov 20, 2012 By Kim Byrd
I have a family member whose ex-husband recently passed away. At that time my family member learned that she was not the only beneficiary of the ex-husband’s life insurance policy as was ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2012 By Joanna Chapman
Florida Statute §61.141(1)(b) provides a basis to modify alimony based on an alimony recipient being in “supportive relationship.” Typically, when an alimony recipient remarries, ...
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Posted on Sep 27, 2012 By Joanna Chapman
Since 1984, Mediation and Diversion Services in Hillsborough County offers a mediation service for parties navigating family law related issues. The program has evolved since 1984 and is now equipped ...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2012 By Ellen Ostman
I have recently blogged about how Florida is a no fault divorce state. Read part of this ruling from a Texas court in 1899 to see how things were different back then. Evidence in a suit for divorce ...
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