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Choosing the Right Daytona Beach Divorce Lawyer for Your Case: An In-Depth Guide

When facing a significant life transition such as divorce, choosing the right Daytona Beach divorce lawyer is a critical initial step. This process, often fraught with emotions, demands the guidance of a skilled and experienced legal advisor to help you navigate the intricate landscape of family law. This comprehensive guide aims to assist you in […]

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Parenting Plans & the Right of First Refusal

Parenting and time-sharing agreements often encompass an array of topics which may arise when navigating the world of co-parenting. Often, the topics which come to mind first are time-sharing, child support, and parental responsibility. However, some of the less common issues can prove just as important when preempting disagreements and issues between the parties.
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MaryCatherine Crock Attends Women2Women Spring Luncheon

Rice Law Attorney MaryCatherine Crock attended the Women2Women Spring Luncheon hosted by the Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce. With over two hundred attendees, women from all types of careers were able to come together, network, and share their experiences.
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Retroactive Child Support

Florida Statute 61.30 dictates the terms and requirements surrounding retroactive child support. Retroactive, or otherwise known as “back-owed,” child support, can be ordered relative to a certain period of time.
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Attorney’s Fees

Often attorneys are asked, “Is the Court able to make them pay my attorney’s fees?” Clients are often concerned whether or not the opposing side will be made to pay attorney’s fees or whether they will be made to do so for the other side.
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Rice Law Firm Receives Peer Review Rating™ from Martindale-Hubbell®

Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings were created in 1887 as an objective tool that would attest to a lawyer’s ability and professional ethics, based on the confidential opinions of other lawyers and judges who have worked with the lawyers they are evaluating.
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Rice Law Attends Annual Family Law Seminar

Paul Rice, Philip Bonamo and MaryCatherine Crock of the Rice Law Firm attended the Florida Bar’s annual Marital & Family Law Review Course on January 27th and 28th of 2023 at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida. This annual seminar had over 20 speakers presenting on various divorce and family law topics to an audience of almost 2,000 family law attorneys and judges. In addition to learning the latest developments in marital and family law, the attendees earned 17 hours of continuing legal education. The Rice Law Firm is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida and represents spouses and parents in Volusia, Flagler, Seminole, Brevard, St. Johns and Putnam counties.
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Rice Law Firm Proudly Sponsors the 23rd New Smyrna Beach CAPS Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser

Rice Law Firm was proud to once again be a Gold Sponsor for NSB CAPS, which is the nonprofit organization that has been raising money for scholarships for deserving high school seniors at New Smyrna Beach High School. This is CAPS 23rd year for their annual Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser and Rice Law Firm has been an active sponsor and supporter for 18 years. Partner Philip Bonamo is an alumni of New Smyrna Beach High School.
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Parental Responsibility: Shared, Ultimate, or Sole?

Chapter 61 of Florida Statutes covers an array of topics that surround parenting issues, to include parental decision making for minor children. Every family and every case has a different set of circumstances but the consistent factor throughout the court’s consideration in a parenting plan is the best interests of the children. When it comes to parental responsibility, the best interests of the child vary from case to case.
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Disestablishment of Paternity in Florida

Chapter 742.18 of Florida Statutes specifies the requirements for seeking a disestablishment of paternity or a termination of a child support obligation in circumstances wherein the male is not the biological father of the child.
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