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What is Shared Parental Responsibility?

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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Can I Spank My Child?

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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Are frequent flyer miles consider a marital asset?

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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What is an Administrative Support Order?

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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Evaluations of Children of Divorce

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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Jurisdiction, What is It and Do You Have It?

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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A Third Party Has Custody of My Child. How Do I Get Him Back?

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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What Is a Guardian Ad Litem?

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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What Do Guardians Ad Litem Do?

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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Mediation and Diversion Services

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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No Fault Divorce - Part Four

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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No Fault Divorce - Part Three

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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No Fault Divorce - Part Two

I recently blogged about Florida's position that divorces in this state are "no fault". Read the following snippet from a divorce case in Michigan from 1868 to see the contrast. Courts ...
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Hearsay in Family Court

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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Relocation and Raulerson

Many Florida residents and parents are not aware of Florida's relocation statute which limits a parent's ability to move the residence of a child more than 50 miles from their current residence. ...
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Deposition Rule #9 for Florida Divorce

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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What Is "Discovery" In My Florida Divorce Or Paternity Case?

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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Deposition Rule #8 for Florida Divorce

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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Attorney Fees in Paternity Actions

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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Deposition Rule #7 for Florida Divorce

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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Fighting Over the Homestead Exemption

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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Deposition Rule #6 for Florida Divorce

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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Use of a Mental Health Professional to Assist in a Collaborative Divorce

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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Deposition Rule #5 for Florida Divorce

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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Establishing Your Florida Paternity Rights Through the Court

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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