Florida Divorce Court Can't Bind Bankruptcy Court
Mon, Sep 11, 2023
A Florida Circuit Court order required one party in a divorce to pay the other's attorney's fees and further ruled that the fee award was not dischargeable in bankruptcy. In a recent ruling, the Third District Court of Appeals reversed that lower cou... Read More
Ex-Wife’s Alimony Terminated For Sharing Prison Cell
Thu, Jan 26, 2023
Generally speaking, a person’s alimony obligation terminates if his or her ex-spouse gets remarried. In some states, such as Florida, laws have been passed allowing alimony to be terminated if one’s former spouse enters into a supportive relationship... Read More
Division of Pensions and Retirement Accounts In a Florida Divorce
Tue, Dec 06, 2022
Pensions and retirement assets are often among the largest and most significant assets at issue in a divorce proceeding. Florida’s equitable distribution law recognizes that some retirement assets are marital, some are non-marital and others are a c... Read More
Current Overview of Alimony in Florida
Fri, Oct 14, 2022
The Florida legislature attempted to eliminate permanent alimony three times over the past ten years. However, those bills were vetoed twice by then Governor Rick Scott and once by current Governor Ron DeSantis. For better or worse, alimony is alive ... Read More
2021 Alimony Reform in Florida Dies
Mon, Apr 26, 2021
Republican legislators have been trying to reform Florida’s alimony law for nearly a decade. If parties are married 17 years or more in Florida, it’s considered a long term marriage with a presumption for permanent alimony. Permanent can be an awfu... Read More
Court Denies Request to Terminate Alimony Despite Ex-Wife’s Remarriage
Tue, Apr 02, 2019
In a December 2018 opinion, a Florida appeals court upheld a trial court’s denial of the former husband’s request to terminate his permanent alimony obligation after his ex-wife remarried. Normally, permanent alimony terminates upon the remarriage or... Read More
Divorced Spouses Don't Make Good Business Partners
Mon, Dec 10, 2018
There’s usually a pretty good reason that a couple is getting divorced. In my experience, one of the spouses is unhappy with the other due to incompatibility, infidelilty or mental health issues. And, if the parties don’t make good marriage partners... Read More
Paul Rice inducted into the Civic League of the Halifax Area.
Wed, Nov 21, 2018
Paul Rice of the Rice Law Firm was recently inducted into the Civic League of the Halifax Area. The organization was formed in 1963 and is a non-partisan, non-profit group of community leaders in the greater Daytona Beach, Florida area. Read More
