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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 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 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 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 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 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 26, 2012 By Blair Chan
For many years the bankruptcy courts drew a distinction between support payments and property distribution (equitable distribution) payments in determining whether an obligation in a family law court ...
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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 21, 2012 By Ellen Ostman
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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Posted on Sep 20, 2012 By Ellen Ostman
“THE ONE CHARM OF THE PAST IS THAT IT IS THE PAST” – Oscar Wilde Some clients who come in for consultations are confused as to what a “No Fault” divorce is. ...
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Posted on Aug 6, 2012 By Garrett Riley
Florida Statute 61.13002 involves temporary modification of timesharing, (or custody ), and child support due to military service. While we have blogged before about the part of the statute that ...
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Posted on Jul 9, 2012 By Joanna Chapman
Beginning August 6, 2012, Hillsborough County will have an additional judge assigned to family law cases at the Plant City courthouse. Division T will be added to the existing division R for a total ...
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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 May 3, 2012 By Damien McKinney
Many of our clients are stationed at the local military base and have questions about what happens to their time sharing and custody rights if they get deployed to a war zone or other location. ...
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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 Jun 30, 2011 By Stann Givens
On Friday, May 13 th, the New York Times had a timely article on the negative evidence that people going through a divorce are volunteering by posting on Facebook and other social networks. Just about ...
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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 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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