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Divorce requires careful consideration and potential division of retirement assets. When one spouse is a police officer, military service member, veteran or firefighter, they may have a valuable pension that could be subject to division. These pensions often represent...
When a couple divorces, pensions and other retirement accounts are often significant assets of the marriage. Especially when one spouse was the primary breadwinner and the other contributed more to the family as a caregiver to children or household manager, division...
In Florida, a new alimony law took effect on July 1, 2023, that establishes a new process for an alimony obligor (paying ex-spouse) to ask the court to reduce or end their spousal-support obligation because of the payor’s voluntary retirement. This can relieve the...
One prominent aspect of Florida’s new alimony law is its focus not only on ending permanent alimony, but also on creating a structure and standard for obligors – people who pay alimony – to ask the state court to reduce or eliminate that legal obligation when they...
Only a handful of states still allow permanent alimony and Florida just left that small fold. Spousal support will not look the same in Florida starting today, July 1, 2023, when a major alimony-reform bill took effect. Officially presented to him on June 26, but...