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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 […]

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Mr. Bonamo has been on the Board for 6 years, and will be sworn in for another 2 year term at the Florida Bar’s Annual Convention in June 2026. Mr. Bonamo is one of 52 attorneys that makes up the Board of Governors for the Florida Bar.
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Most people who own a business in Volusia or Flagler County do not have a will. I would put it at somewhere just over half, based on forty years of asking the question across a conference table.
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If you are getting divorced in Florida and you walked in here thinking it is going to be a 50/50 split, somebody has lied to you. Probably not on purpose, and probably not anybody who works in family law for a living, but somebody. Maybe your brother-in-law. Maybe a podcast. Maybe a friend who got divorced in California fifteen years ago and confused things.
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gray divorce

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 […]

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Mr. Bonamo has been on the Board for 6 years, and will be sworn in for another 2 year term at the Florida Bar’s Annual Convention in June 2026. Mr. Bonamo is one of 52 attorneys that makes up the Board of Governors for the Florida Bar.
By Rice Law
Recently, Matthew Shapiro attended a meeting of the Dunn-Blount Chapter of the American Inns of Court featuring a presentation by attorney Mel Stack, Chair of the Seventh Circuit Grievance Committee, and Amelia Beamer, a non-attorney member of the committee, regarding attorney professionalism, ethics, and the attorney disciplinary process within Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit.
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first hour after arrest in Florida

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 […]

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divorce road map

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 […]

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online tools to find daytona beach attorney

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 […]

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