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 […]
On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement officers invade a cell phone user’s reasonable expectation of privacy when they access historical location data through what is referred to as a Google “geofence” warrant. These “warrants” utilized a three-step protocol developed by Google and law enforcement to narrow down suspects. In […]
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 […]
