Many co-parents are familiar with the questions raised by the holidays, like where your child will spend their break from school, who will care for them while you or your co-parent is at work, and many more. Before booking travel or accepting invitations, review the holiday provisions in your parenting plan. It’s essential to have […]
A Florida divorce means dividing what has been accumulated during the marriage. That includes the cars, the boats, the furniture, the bank accounts, the pensions, IRAs, jewelry, collections and the debts. Florida divides marital assets and debts through equitable distribution. Yes, equitable means fair, but during a divorce it doesn’t always seem that way. Some […]
Once you’ve decided that it’s the right time to hire a divorce lawyer, you’ll be faced with another question… which one? Often, first time clients fall in love with a certain firm’s website and want to sign with that one, but if you aren’t so sure which Volusia County lawyer is right for you, you […]
Nine in the morning, two conference rooms on the same floor, and a mediator who walks between them with a legal pad. Somewhere around hour four, somebody’s shoulders come down an inch, and the schedule for next summer stops being a fight and starts being a calendar question. That is what the day actually looks […]
You hear Main Street before you see it. By Thursday morning the sound has settled into something constant, engines idling three deep at the light, vendors unrolling canopies, the smell of fried food and exhaust mixing in air that is finally cool enough to enjoy. The 34th annual Biketoberfest runs October 15 through 18 this […]
Two statements sit on the kitchen table. One is the 401(k), thirty-one years of contributions and a balance that took most of a working life to build. The other is the mortgage payoff on a house off Granada with a roof that has four or five good years left in it. Somebody at some point […]
The first missed payment rarely registers as a crisis. The deposit does not land on the day it always lands, and you tell yourself there was a holiday, or a payroll problem, or some other ordinary explanation. The second month is when the feeling changes. You find yourself doing arithmetic in the school pickup line, […]
Every April the beachside condo lots start to empty out, and by the end of the month a good portion of your building has gone north for the season. You make that drive with the mail forwarded and the thermostat set at eighty, back to the house in Michigan or New Jersey or somewhere outside […]
A test you can run across three consultations, using numbers you already have sitting in a drawer. You typed divorce attorney Daytona Beach into your phone somewhere around the third week of not sleeping, and now there are three consultations on the calendar and a legal pad with nothing useful written on it. The first […]
