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Posted on Jan 19, 2012 By Kim Byrd
During the last few months of 2011, our family law firm was inundated with new clients who were anxious to have their divorces finalized before the end of the year. Whether these clients wanted to be ...
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Posted on Nov 3, 2011 By Kim Byrd
A Marital Settlement Agreement is an agreement that resolves all of the issues that must be addressed by a court in a dissolution of marriage or divorce case. Your Marital Settlement Agreement (MSA) ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2011 By Garrett Riley
As the Florida and national economy and housing markets continue to struggle, many people have made the decision to allow their homes to go into foreclosure and to "walk away" from their mortgages. ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2011 By Stann Givens
When asked a question in your St. Petersburg divorce deposition that calls for a "Yes" or "No" answer, just give that answer. Do not elaborate. If the best divorce lawyer in St. ...
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Posted on Jul 12, 2011 By Ellen Ostman
Nearly half of all newlyweds will experience divorce . Nothing in the beginning of the relationship prepares one for the end. Often clients believe that if their spouse decides to divorce them the ...
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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 Jun 6, 2011 By Stann Givens
We have discussed earlier the fact that every Florida divorce or Florida paternity case requires that certain information be provided in the "discovery" phase of the case. The natural reaction of ...
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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 13, 2011 By Stann Givens
Under Florida Statute 742 any woman who is pregnant or has a child, and any man who has reason to believe that he is the father of a child may bring a proceeding in a Circuit Court of Florida to ...
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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 8, 2011 By Stann Givens
We try to keep our readers up to date on new areas of the Florida divorce process. One of these new avenues of disagreement is the fight over the dependency exemption on the marital homestead. In ...
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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 28, 2011 By O. Kim Byrd
If you are the father of a child born to a woman to whom you were not married, you should retain an expert St. Petersburg paternity attorney to establish your paternity through a legal action filed ...
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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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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Stann Givens
Often in a Florida divorce , there is a need to have an early division of certain assets so that you don't have to wait until the end of a divorce trial. For example, there may be a difference of ...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2011 By Stann Givens
In our ongoing discussion about depositions, we are providing some pointers which will help you in the event that you will be place under oath and asked questions by the opposing attorney in your ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2011 By Stann Givens
If you have been awarded alimony for support in your Florida divorce , it is generally going to be taxable to you and deductible by your spouse for federal income taxation purposes. There are ...
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Posted on Mar 11, 2011 By Stann Givens
One of the best divorce lawyers in Tampa has scheduled your deposition in your Florida divorce or paternity case. The first thing that you do is start to worry about the entire process. The first rule ...
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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 By Stann Givens
In every Florida divorce , each spouse is required to provide tremendous amounts of paperwork such as bank account statement, copies of deeds, car titles, life insurance policies, information related ...
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