Can You Invade Your Spouse’s Nonmarital Assets to Obtain Alimony?
Can you force your spouse to invade the nonmarital assets to pay you alimony? Or does that result in the effect of an award that makes the other spouse a beneficiary of his/her inheritance estate and amounts to an impermissible equitable distribution...
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Modifying Child Support in the Orlando, Florida Area
The burden of establishing that a reduction in child support is necessary is on the party seeking modification. Judicially created heavier burden standard has been superseded by statute and is inapplicable to cases where a petition seeks to decrease ...
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Signs and Symptoms of Dementia in the Orlando, Florida Area
There was helpful information in Home Resource Guide, A Handbook for the Alzheimer’s Caregiver. It explained “Common Symptoms Related to Alzheimer’s.” The article stated that Alzheimer’s disease causes damage to the brain tissue ov...
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Representing a Client with Diminished Capacity in Orlando, Florida Area
There was a great article in Action Line, Winter 2023 by Justin A. Shifrin, Esq. with Gunster, Yorkley & Stewart, P. A., West Palm Beach, Florida, titled “Rule 4-1.14: Diminished Capacity Resolving Diminished Clarity.” The article is very informa...
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The Sandwich Generation, the Caregivers in the Orlando, Florida Area
There was an interesting article in NAELA NEWS National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys JAN/FEB/MARCH 2023, “A View from the Middle of the Sandwich, Caregiver Support” by Chari M. Alison, CELA. The author states that she is an elder law at...
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Marital versus Nonmarital Assets and Liabilities in the Orlando, Florida Area
The definition of marital and non-marital assets is covered in Florida Statute 61.075 Equitable Distribution. A non-marital asset or debt is an asset or debt that you had prior to the marriage, you inherited, you received by gift that you did not wa...
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