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Posted on May 8, 2013 By Damien McKinney
The Florida Legislature has defined “shared parental responsibility” as a court ordered relationship between parents of a minor child in which both parents confer with each other and make ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2013 By Damien McKinney
Florida Statute 409.2563 allows the Department of Revenue to establish administrative child support orders. The Department of Revenue is a governmental agency in Florida that is set up to establish ...
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Posted on Feb 1, 2013 By Damien McKinney
Family law courts in Florida are appointing Guardians Ad Litem in cases more frequently than ever before. A guardian ad litem can be used in a family law court ( divorce, custody, paternity, etc.) and ...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2013 By Damien McKinney
A Guardian Ad Litem is a court appointed person who acts as the next friend of a minor child and represents the minor child’s best interest. Once a guardian ad litem is appointed by the court, ...
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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 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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Posted on Sep 24, 2012 By Ellen Ostman
I posted last week about Florida being a no fault divorce state. Read the portion of the following case from California in 1897 to see how things have changed over the years. A finding that defendant ...
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Posted on Sep 18, 2012 By Damien McKinney
A recent Fifth District Court of Appeals case dealt with an injunction filed against a family member. In Morris v. Mascia, the appellee filed a petition seeking an injunction for protection against ...
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Posted on Aug 7, 2012 By Damien McKinney
When a court grants a Domestic Violence Injunction, they will grant if for a specific period of time. Often it is granted for a period of one year. What do you do after the year has ended and you are ...
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Posted on Jun 19, 2012 By Joanna Chapman
The Tampa Bay Times reported today on the staggering rise in the number of Domestic Violence related homicides in the Tampa Bay area. “Only six months into the year, Pinellas County already has ...
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Posted on May 7, 2012 By Joanna Chapman
In family law cases, a party may wish to introduce evidence in court about their spouse based on something they didn’t personally witness or can attest to. Information a party may have about ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2012 By Christian Givens
Deion Sanders' divorce from his wife, Pilar, turned hostile earlier this week. Deion tweeted that his children, "Just witnessed their mother and a friend jump me in my room. She's going ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Stann Givens
We all know that if someone harms you intentionally, or even by a negligent but unintentional act, you can sue that person in Florida personal injury court for damages. Most people think that it is ...
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Posted on Jun 9, 2011 By Stann Givens
The latest topic for advice as you prepare to undergo questioning in a Florida Divorce or Florida Paternity case has to do with questions that assume facts that aren't true. For example, you may be ...
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Posted on May 5, 2011 By Stann Givens
In the tactics that expert St. Petersburg divorce lawyers use during the course of a case, one is very simple. That is to tell your client to make sure the client understands a question at a ...
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Posted on May 3, 2011 By Stann Givens
In every Florida divorce or Florida paternity case, you will deal with something called "discovery". That term refers to the search for information in your case. Discovery of information comes in a ...
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Posted on Apr 15, 2011 By Stann Givens
In our effort to educate our clients and the public in general about how to handle themselves in a family law deposition, we come to another simple but very important rule: Listen to the Question. ...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2011 By Stann Givens
Deposition Rule #7 has offered a great deal of comfort to all of our clients. It is that, "YOU WILL KNOW THE ANSWER TO EVERY QUESTION". People involved in Florida divorces are extremely stressed out. ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2011 By Stann Givens
In our continuing series of blog posts about how to handle yourself at a deposition in your Florida divorce, we come now to Rule #6 - Be Careful What You Say During A Recess. During a recess in your ...
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Posted on Apr 4, 2011 By Stann Givens
We have blogged before about Collaborative Divorce. Plain and simple, it is a process where the spouses and their expert St. Petersburg divorce attorneys get together in the beginning of the case and ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2011 By Stann Givens
We have discussed in previous blogs some of the basic fundamentals of depositions involved in a Florida divorce. Today, we will speak briefly about the relationship between you and the expert St. ...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2011 By Stann Givens
In many Florida divorces, there are strong negative emotional feelings about the actions of the opposing party or even the party's lawyer. You should not let that show on the day of your deposition. ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Ellen D. Ostman
Over the years as a Tampa family law attorney, I have been asked what the greatest help a client can give to the lawyer. Simply put: write it down. Keep a journal. I don't care what you write. Your ...
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Posted on Mar 21, 2011 By Stann Givens
To continue with our discussion of the proper procedures to follow when the opposing attorney has scheduled an opportunity to place you under oath and ask you questions, we have a very simple and ...
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