Your Vital Guide Protecting Children During Divorce

The most important thing to do when you’re getting divorce is to understand your children’s needs. In most cases, if you have two good parents that love their children, the best thing you can do is shield them from the divorce, keep them out of it, the old adage, tell them that you love them,

Confidentiality in Celebrity Divorce Cases

Celebrity divorce cases, first off, really no different than any other case. The difference is, is that you might have the media involved. So when you have the media, social media, people now have access to social media. So they can put their divorce case out there if they want, but nobody’s interested. So the

Evaluating a Business in a Divorce Part 2

Then once you get to a number, if you get to a number, is there enough assets on the other side of the table to make it even? Meaning if you have $20 million in assets and $15 million of that is a business, there’s only $5 million of other assets. So if one party

Evaluating a Business in a Divorce Part 1

So when you’re dealing with these assets, in the cases where that are e-liquid, meaning a business, you’re not selling a business. You have to go rely on good experts and the expert has to do a valuation. And there’s different ways to value a business. There is the fair market value, there’s the income

How is an Equitable Distribution Handled?

So when you’re in a complex divorce and your party has a lot of assets, the most important thing to do, as in any case, is to identify all the assets and liabilities. So first you identify assets of assets and liabilities. The next step then is you have to determine the assets and liabilities

How Long Do I Have to Pay Alimony?

Alimony laws changed in 2023, and alimony duration is based on the length of the marriage. In a marriage of less than 10 years, you’re looking at 50% of the length as the maximum amount. In a marriage of 10 to 20 years, you’re looking at 60% as the max and the amounts, the duration,

What is the Difference Between Alimony and Spousal Support?

Alimony and spousal support are synonymous. It’s called, in Florida, alimony. Alimony is based off of need and ability, one spouse’s need for alimony and the other spouse’s ability to pay alimony. Duration of alimony is dependent on the length of the marriage, and there is now a statute in place which caps alimony at

I Lost My Job. Can I Modify My Child Support?

If you just lost your job and you no longer have the income that was used to calculate child support, then you probably can modify your child support obligation. You would need to file a supplemental petition for modification of child support and show that the loss of your job is permanent and significant.

Do Threats Affect the Divorce

Threats made by one party or the other, such as I’m gonna take the kids in a divorce. Doesn’t help the parties in any which way. It creates more animosity, it creates more litigation, and especially now that you have a 50/50 presumption. The odds of somebody taking the children when both parents, assuming they’re

What is “Actual Income”?

Everyone wants to know what income actually is and how to determine it. Are you self employed? Are you a W2 employee? And why does it really matter? Because the numbers are based on the child support calculation. So we need to determine what each party’s income actually is. It’s not given to the other

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