As a Jacksonville, Florida custody attorney, I have seen a big shift in the ideology of the courts in providing for joint custody of children in Florida. However, couples experiencing divorce in Florida are usually unaware of the difference between shared parental responsibility (aka “joint custody”) and 50/50 timesharing. In…
When parties divorce in Jacksonville, Florida, a Florida divorce lawyer can help you through difficult issues such as co-parenting beyond divorce, financial issues including mortgage issues, division of property and most importantly, in dealing with the best interests of your child or children. Parents who divorce in Florida and everywhere…
I’ve been practicing as a Jacksonville, Florida custody attorney for almost ten years, and in most of my custody cases, I can’t understand how at one point, the parties loved each other so much that they created a human being only now to glare at one another with absolute hate.…
An article titled, “Breaking up is hard to do because of the economy,” describes how many couples although wanting to file for divorce are stuck in their marriages because of financial woe’s. The article describes a couple who made the decision to end their marriage in the fall of 2008,…
A concerned Nebraska mother learned the hard way that recording someone without his or her knowledge violates the Federal Wiretap Act. The mother and her father were hit with a combined $120,000 penalty for putting an audio recorder in the mother’s daughter’s teddy bear. An article titled, “Modern Divorce: Wiretapped…
An American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) survey conducted just this past year found that four out of five lawyers reported an increasing number of their divorce cases citing evidence derived from social networking sites in the past five years, with Facebook leading the pack. As a Jacksonville Divorce and…
According to journalgazette.net women in the military are more than twice as likely to get divorced then their male comrades and more than three times as likely if they are enlisted. As to the reason for this disparity, David Segal, director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at…
In a recent article titled, ” Reason No. 172 Not to Practice Family Law” author Burt Likko describes how family law court can be a very unpleasant place to find oneself. Likko goes one to describe how transcripts and scenes from family law hearings can be “utterly miserable.” Although, I…
A new North Dakota bill is getting a lot of attention in the North Dakota legislature, as it is proposing mandatory marriage counseling in all divorce cases. The drafters of the bill want all married couples, with the exemption of cases with substantiated allegations of domestic abuse, to wait one…
Many parents who are frustrated with dealing with their ex-spouses or child’s other parent consider terminating the other parent’s rights. Parental termination is a legal process in which a parent’s legal rights are taken away. In the eyes of the court, that person ceases to be that child’s parent and…