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Florida Divorce Court Can't Bind Bankruptcy Court
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
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
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
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
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 Invalidates Prenuptial Agreement in Florida Divorce
Court Invalidates Prenuptial Agreement in Florida Divorce Thu, Aug 15, 2019 Prenuptial agreements in Florida are valid and binding if they are well drafted and executed voluntarily after full financial disclosure. Read More

The Meaning of the Tiniest Word in a Prenuptial Agreement Costs Wife $1.5 Mill
The Meaning of the Tiniest Word in a Prenuptial Agreement Costs Wife $1.5 Mill Mon, Jul 22, 2019 The tiniest of words can have the greatest consequence. An appellate court recently ruled that the word “a,” the smallest of words in the English language, could (and in fact did) mean the difference of a million and a half dollars. Read More

Court Denies Request to Terminate Alimony Despite Ex-Wife’s Remarriage
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
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.
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

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