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Partner Philip Bonamo was recently awarded, for a second year in a row, The Client Distinction Award for 2014 from Martindale-Hubbell.

Jim Rose moderated a discussion with the Daytona Beach News Journal publisher Bill Offill, editor Pat Rice and editorial writer Scott Kent at a recent Daytona Regional Chamber Eggs and Issues breakfast.

Florida law favors shared parental responsibility after a divorce with minor children. Judges frown on parents who try to alienate one parent from another. Florida Statute §61.13 acknowledges that the parent who tries to facilitate a relationship with the other acts in the best interest of the child.

Rice & Rose Attorney and Cinematique President Beth King pictured here with Board of Directors members Phyllis Lober and Davita Bonner attend the Dancing with Desire fundraiser kick-off event at Absolutely Ballroom in Ormond Beach on July 10.

Tiffany Fanning has joined the Law Firm of Rice & Rose as a Paralegal in our Family Law Practice Group. Tiffany graduated from UCF majoring in legal studies.

Karen Foxman, pictured here, previously a partner with the Rice & Rose Law Firm for 7 ½ years, is a candidate for Circuit Court Judge in the Seventh Judicial Circuit which covers Volusia, Flagler, St. Johns and Putnam Counties. While with the Rice & Rose Law Firm, Ms. Foxman was president of the Volusia County Bar Association and the Volusia/Flagler Association of Women Lawyers. Ms. Foxman practiced in the areas of divorce and family law and criminal law during her years with Rice & Rose.

I read with interest an article discussing the Iowa Supreme Court recently upholding as valid and enforceable in that sate a couple’s post-nuptial agreement that was entered into and signed by the parties in the State of Florida over 20 years ago.

As society has developed  an increased awareness of domestic violence and its corrosive effect on families, our laws have become increasingly complex.  Domestic violence results in physical injury, psychological trauma and sometimes death.

Paul Rice conducted a meeting of the Volusia County Bar Association’s Family Law Section at the Volusia County Courthouse in Deland, Florida on June 5, 2014. The family law section has traditionally met at the Courthouse Annex in Daytona Beach, but family law judges, Matthew Foxman and Dawn Nichols, requested a meeting at their courthouse in Deland in order to get more west side Volusia lawyers involved. 

Buying a home may be the biggest single investment of your lifetime.  A life’s savings may be invested in this one venture. Thus, it is extremely important that you, the prospective buyer, use the greatest caution in buying a home which will not only provide you with comfort, but will cause you as little trouble as possible while living in it and when you decide to sell it.