How settling out of court actually works in Florida, and when it’s the smarter way through a divorce. If you’re heading into a Florida divorce, chances are you’ll sit through mediation well before you ever see the inside of a courtroom. A lot of people don’t realize that going in. You brace yourself for the witness stand and the cross-examination, and […]
Filing the petition feels like the finish line to most families, when it is closer to the starting line. All you have done by filing is ask the court for permission to begin. The estate itself does not open until a judge reviews everything and issues the personal representative a document called Letters of Administration, and the […]
A Florida family law guide to protecting your position when a divorce turns into a fight. There’s a moment in a lot of divorces when you stop expecting it to stay civil. You text about switching a weekend and get back three paragraphs about everything wrong with you. Or a few thousand dollars leaves the joint account and nobody says […]
A father sat in our office last year with a folder he had been keeping for months. Inside were dates and times, every Sunday his ex had brought their son back late. Some of them were six or seven minutes. The worst one was fifteen. He wanted to take her back to court over it, and he was not […]
A practical guide to choosing the right divorce attorney in Volusia County, and the mistakes that cost people the most. By the time you go looking for a divorce lawyer, you’ve usually got a name or two written down already. A cousin who went through her own a few years back gave you one. Somebody […]
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 […]
