The forty-nine dollar will you bought online last summer is probably going to cost your family thousands of dollars they did not need to spend. Sometimes tens of thousands. That is the part the legal forms websites do not put in their marketing materials. I have probated a lot of these. After forty years of […]
Picture a retired woman sitting on her porch in an over-fifty-five community in Port Orange, looking at a husband she has been married to for forty-one years. Imagine that she is doing math in her head; remaining years, pension survivor benefits, whether the house has enough equity that splitting it would still leave each of […]
The flashing blue lights, the hard knock on the door, and handcuffs. Now what? If you are reading this in the parking lot of the Volusia County Branch Jail, or after they finally let you go home, you’re probably not having the best day. Take a breath. What you do in the first hour after […]
There is distinct, special silence that settles over a home on the morning you decide that your marriage is over. The coffee maker still gurgles; the neighbor’s dog still barks next door. However, the kitchen table you’ve sat at each morning for years suddenly feels foreign and the light is too bright. If you’ve experienced […]
Most people start searching the same way. Late at night once the kids are in bed, while the dishwasher is running, they open their laptop. They type something into Google such as “Daytona Beach divorce attorney,” or “family lawyer Daytona Beach,” or some version of that. And what came back did not exactly help. Sponsored […]