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Well, that is a rough take on an old nursery rhyme. What we mean to ask is how is child support determined if there are children outside the marriage? Broadly and with narrow exception, Florida law seems to favor older children when it comes to setting or modifying...
On July 1, 2023, a major alimony reform bill became the law across the Sunshine State. While alimony is the topic most impacted, other areas of family law were also. We have written in this space about the bill’s contents several times (please check out our July 2023...
This is the last in a series of posts reviewing the main provisions of Florida’s new alimony reform bill that took effect on July 1, 2023. Today we consider changes to Florida alimony law concerning supportive relationships. Basically, the statute before amendment...
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...
True – but the new alimony law enshrines the requirement that for adultery to influence the amount of an alimony award, it must have caused financial harm. Did a spouse shower gifts and money on a paramour to the detriment of the marital bottom line? Did a cheating...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis threw out permanent alimony, so to speak, when he signed a momentous spousal support bill that took effect on July 1, 2023. The new law leaves other alimony types in place but provides new rules and standards for courts to apply. What was...
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...
It is not unusual for a Floridian to make plans to relocate to a foreign country once their divorce is final. After all, we have many immigrant families that still have ties to their home countries. When beginning a new life after a marriage ends, it may be a good...
Many single Floridians have dreams of being parents, but they never married or had other relationships that produced children, or they are divorced. Single adults may have medical or genetic complications preventing pregnancy or raising the risks of severe problems in...
A guardian-ad-litem (GAL) is a specially trained and certified professional whom the court may appoint in a divorce or custody proceeding to act as a child’s “next friend … investigator or evaluator.” The judge has discretion to appoint the GAL if it would be in the...