Tag Archives: Tampa Divorce Lawyer
When Divorce Isn’t Enough – Annulling a Marriage
When someone contemplates ending a marriage, the option most people naturally choose is divorce. Divorce is a well-known and relatively easy method of dissolving a marriage, but it is not the sole legal procedure able to break a union. Annulment, while a more complicated process, may be a better choice for some parties. In… Read More »
How Florida Law and the Courts Divide Property in a Divorce
When couples first marry, they are often extremely eager to combine every aspect of their lives – emotional, physical, and financial. Merging financial affairs as a newly-married couple typically makes sense, because it aids in tracking and paying expenses and generally makes it easier to see the couple’s whole financial picture. This mingling becomes… Read More »
When Guardianship and Divorce Intersect
Few people would characterize getting divorced as a happy time in their life. Divorce brings a lot of large and difficult changes to the couple, their children, extended family, and friends. It is common for emotions to run high as the parties work to settle issues necessary to divorce and learn how to navigate… Read More »
Alimony Awards: When Is It Awarded, and When Do the Payments Start?
Figuring out how to start over and reorient one’s life after divorce is one of the most difficult transitions a person will ever make. The end of a marriage is not an easy thing to contemplate, and financial worries are often at the forefront of concerns divorcing individuals need to address. This is especially… Read More »
How Do You Get a Quick Divorce in Florida?
Making the decision to end a marriage with divorce is one of the hardest choices a person will make in his/her lifetime. For many, the worry is others will see their divorce as an indication they made the wrong choice or did not work hard enough to keep the marriage together. Obviously, no relationship… Read More »
How to Appeal a Divorce Judgment
It is rare for a person going through a divorce to feel that they won on all the issue, since issues in these cases almost universally require some amount of compromise, but that does not mean either party should come out of the case feeling the judge clearly favored one side or made decisions… Read More »
Governor Signs a New Law that Will Give Divorcing Couples an Alternative to Court
When many people think about divorce, they usually conjure up a process that is full of animosity and disagreement, with both sides unwilling to concede an inch towards resolution. While there are certainly some divorces that meet this stereotypical image, more and more divorcing couples, especially those part of Generation X, are trying to… Read More »
Methods of Enforcement When a Parent Fails to Pay Child Support
Functioning as a single parent after a divorce is an emotional and economic strain as the parent tries to balance providing a stable home for the child against the need to generate enough income to support the family. This precarious situation is the very reason why child support is so essential to financial stability… Read More »
Mental Incapacity and Divorce in Florida
Moving through the thought process that leads to the decision to initiate divorce proceedings is not easy, and normally comes with a lot of emotional angst. This decision can become even more complicated and distressing if a spouse is suffering from a mental health issue. A recent news story in Lakeview, Florida, discusses a… Read More »
Restraining Orders in Florida
According to the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, nearly one in four women is a victim of domestic violence. Sadly, men can be victims of domestic violence too. Over 113,000 instances of domestic violence were reported to Florida’s law enforcement agencies in 2010. In 2014, over 4,800 arrests were made in Hillsborough County for… Read More »
