What is Mediation and How Can it Affect my Divorce
What is Mediation?
"Mediation" means a process in which the parties appear before an impartial third party who has no authority to adjudicate the dispute but who, through the application of standard mediation techniques generally accepted within the professional mediation community, assists the parties in identifying the issues, and then interests, exploring settlement alternatives, and... [...]
How Many Years in Prison are Federal Judges in Florida Sentencing Defendants in Mortgage Fraud Prosecutions?
Mortgage fraud in South Florida continues to be in the news, as a multi-agency task force involving both federal agencies and local law enforcement continues to file criminal cases in both state and federal Courts. South Florida federal courts are known to be especially focused on sex crimes and white collar fraud, while medicare... [...]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- The first formal divorce for a gay couple in Florida history was granted Wednesday by a Broward County judge who used the case to join other judges in declaring the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
Circuit Judge Dale Cohen on Wednesday dissolved the marriage of Heather Brassner and Megan Lade in a brief hearing. They were united in a 2002 civil union in Vermont but Brassner was unable to... [...]
This Is What It's Like To Divorce At 40 After 14 Years Of MarriageAnne MacDonald is wrapping up the divorce process after two years of back-and-forth with her ex -- but that doesn't mean she's ready to start dating again. Finding a new love is the last thing on her mind right now."If there's one thing I know about the divorce process, it's that you must grieve the loss of the marriage before you move on," she told The Huffington Post. "No... [...]
Police face new ethical dilemma in increasingly digital world“I took a call at five o’clock this morning,” Supt Richard Cooper told me last week. “A girl had texted her friend to say she’d taken an overdose. She couldn’t be found.”It’s Cooper’s job to decide whether Gloucestershire police should ask telephone and internet companies for customer records that, in this case, could save a life. Requests from any officer in the... [...]
