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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 26, 2013 By Damien McKinney
The issue of spanking doesn’t come up in my cases very frequently these days. In general, parents should work together to determine an appropriate discipline plan for their children. The problem ...
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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 9, 2013 By Damien McKinney
It’s been my experience that clients often place great value in their travel points and are often reluctant to part with them. In Florida, these travel points (frequent flyer miles, hotel ...
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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 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 27, 2013 By Kelly Tobaygo
Most people who are facing divorce proceedings which involve children become concerned over the well-being of their children, and wonder how the divorce process might impact them. People often ask ...
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Posted on Mar 20, 2013 By Kim Byrd
A Power of Attorney is a document in which you designate someone to make legal and financial decisions for you if you are not available to make them yourself. The person you designate can sell or buy ...
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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 Mar 8, 2013 By Kelly Tobaygo
Recently, in an appealed family law case, the Second District Court of Appeal made a decision which required a former husband to pilot a private plane for his former wife. This sounds like it may be a ...
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Posted on Mar 6, 2013 By Kelly Tobaygo
The ideal divorce situation for most people is one where everyone agrees on who gets what, everyone walks away happy, and the court case is over quickly. People who are going through a divorce and ...
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Posted on Mar 4, 2013 By Kim Byrd
When your divorce becomes final, any provision in your last will and testament that affects your spouse becomes null and void as though your spouse died at the time of divorce. This has been a ...
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Posted on Mar 2, 2013 By Damien McKinney
Sometimes parents will agree to restrict relocation of a minor child within a certain area. I often see agreements that prevent either parent from moving outside of Hillsborough or the surrounding ...
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Posted on Feb 27, 2013 By Damien McKinney
A recent Fifth District Court of Appeals case held that a disestablishment of paternity action does not relieve the alleged father of any previously established child support arrearages. In Hickman v. ...
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Posted on Feb 25, 2013 By Damien McKinney
A recent first district court of appeal case dealt with penalty provisions in marital settlement agreements. In Palmer v. Palmer, the parties agreed that the husband would have sole ownership of the ...
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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 15, 2013 By Damien McKinney
Sometimes parents have to grant custody of their children to third parties because of life events that are out of their control. Often time this third party is a grandparent or other family member. ...
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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 6, 2013 By Kim Byrd
There are 5 basic issues that may need to be resolved or determined by the court in a divorce case: 1) Parental Responsibility and Timesharing; 2) Child Support; 3) Property Division; 4) Alimony; and ...
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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 Jan 23, 2013 By Damien McKinney
Some parents are fortunate enough to pay more child support than is owed per month. The First District Court of Appeal recently made a ruling in Mayfield v. Mayfield regarding the issue of child ...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2013 By Blair Chan
As a general rule, regular and recurring interest payments must be factored into a party’s income when determining their child support obligation. When dividing the marital estate in the context ...
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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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