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When you’re drafting a prenuptial agreement, the most important thing that we look at is who has the money? How are they protecting the money? Or the person that doesn’t have the money and there’s a payment, how are they gonna get paid? But before you even get theirs, what do you want? What are

When you’re going through a divorce process, the first thing you have to determine is does Florida have jurisdiction over the parties? And that starts with residency of the parties. First, you have to be a resident state of Florida for six months before filing for dissolution of marriage. Then you have to determine, is

Agreements and court orders are supposed to be followed by the parties. If a party’s ex is not following a court order, they should reach out to their attorney. The attorney would then try to either first amicably resolve the issue with the other side, or if an amicable resolution cannot be reached, then that

As long as people are getting along and they’re rational and they can understand both sides, what you need to do is to be able to understand the financial picture as a whole, the time sharing picture, whatever it might be. Once you understand the issues, then people have knowledge, and once they have that

First and foremost, all of our clients at Brodie Friedman are important to us. But for those of our clients who are considered a high profile client or in the public eye, the most important point to remember is to try to work through a lot of the issues with the other side. Try to

Permanent alimony was in place as of two years ago, so on a marriage of 17 years or more, you were entitled to permanent alimony. There was a push to change that because if you’re married young, say at 20 years old, at 37 years old, you could be on the hook for permanent alimony

When a client comes into our office or we’re on a zoom with them, or on a phone call or even a text message, they need to be assured that anything they say to us stays within our four walls of our office, and that’s what occurs. Everything is confidential and we keep it as

Every person has available safeguards to them. Regardless of immigration status, every person has the right to call law enforcement. Every person has the right to try to obtain a petition for injunction for protection against domestic violence. The facts of your case will dictate the safeguards that are necessary to ensure that everyone, regardless

The courtroom is the place of last resort because you never know what a judge is gonna do. In settlement, you’re in full control. In a courtroom, you have no control. You’re meeting probably a judge that knows nothing about you or your family, and you’re putting the fate of your spouse and your children

When dividing assets that are dependent on market fluctuation, while not always possible, if it’s possible, the parties would equally split the asset equally, split the tax basis in the asset, equally split any gains in the asset. Now, in every case, that’s not always possible, given the other assets in the case and which