Guardianship

Checklist for Family Members of Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease in the Orlando, Florida Area

As Alzheimer’s Disease and other memory loss conditions progress, patients are unable to manage family and business decisions. If you have a loved one with Alzheimer’s Disease, you may be learning this.  Managing Your Loved One’s Affairs When your lo...

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Divorce

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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Custody

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 Judicially created heavier burden standard has been superseded by statute and is inapplicable to cases where a petition seeks to decrease ...

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Elder Law

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 over a period of tim...

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Elder Law

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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Elder Law

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 attorney and a...

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