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Statement of Client’s Rights and Responsibilities in Divorce Cases in the Orlando, Florida Area

In a divorce case, you should discuss with your lawyer the possibility of preserving your marriage and the availability of marriage counseling. You are entitled to a lawyer who will be capable of handling your case, show you c...

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How Much Can the Court Make You Pay in Alimony in an Orlando, Florida Area Divorce Case?

The amount the court can make you pay in alimony in an Orlando, Florida area dissolution of marriage case depends on your spouse's need for alimony and your ability to pay alimony. The trial court cannot award an amount of alimony that exceeds or nearly exhausts a pay...

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Update on Prejudgment Contempt Orders

This blog deals with appeals. It deals with non-final orders. It deals with Contempt in Dissolution of Marriage, it discusses how Prejudgment contempt orders are appealable non-final orders only if the ordered sanction falls within subsections of Rule 9.130(a) (3).  Read More

Partition of Marital Home in an Orlando, Florida Divorce

Can you partition the home prior to entry of the final judgment of dissolution of marriage? Partition of property held as tenants by the entireties is not permitted prior to entry of final judgment dissolving the marriage of the owners. Florida law does not permit par...

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What is Needed to Modify Alimony?

In order to modify alimony you must show a substantial change in circumstances since the entry of the final judgment of dissolution of marriage, that the change was not contemplated at the time of the final judgment of dissolution of marriage, and that the change was ...

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Can You Obtain That Financial Information From Your Spouse?

You are in a post-dissolution of marriage case. You have filed a motion for contempt against your spouse for failure to pay alimony. Your spouse has filed for a Modification of Alimony. You want certain financial information from your spouse. You want that financial i...

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Dividing Retirement Funds in the Orlando, Florida Area

Division of Assets and Debts in the Orlando, Florida Area falls under Florida Statute 61.075 Equitable Distribution. If you are dividing retirement accounts, it should be done by QDRO (Qualified Domestic Relations Order) or tax affected. That way you avoid getting hit...

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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 to the husband/wi...

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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 want commingled with...

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Equitable Distribution in High-Net-Worth Divorces in the Orlando, Florida Area

The Florida Statute on Equitable Distribution is Florida Statute 61.075. It mainly explains the law on equitable distribution in Florida. Further, if your case goes to trial, it explains the legal analysis the court must apply in deciding and pronouncing its judgment ...

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