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Take control of your relationships during your Florida divorce
Your Florida divorce may be causing you some emotional distress and general anxiety. Would it help you to know that experts say there are no "normal" marriages or divorces? Or that you do not have to choose between the two extremes of a perfect marriage and a horribly broken home? Your divorce may not be the... [...]
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Judge Hands Down Controversial Sentence
A local judge ordered a former Coconut Grove lawyer to serve six years of probation with the condition that he pay back $700,000 that he allegedly stole from clients. The State of Florida charged Guy Bailey in 2010 with 1 st Degree Grand Theft. The attorney charged in the case was once considered to be one of the top... [...]
Florida Divorce Rates Down Over Past Two Decades
Florida residents likely hear a lot about rising divorce rates, but not all numbers touted on the Internet are accurate. According to numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, divorce rates in the state of Florida fell between 1990 and 2009.
The number of divorces reported in 1990 were 81,700 in the state; that's a rate of 6.3 divorces for every 1,000 people in Florida. In 2000, the rate was 5.1... [...]
An Invalid Divorce Can Cause Issues Years Later
A second or later marriage comes with some risks if either party to the marriage was not thorough in the legality of a previous divorce. There are several reasons that a divorce may be invalidated; in one case highlighted by the Social Security Administration (“SSA”), a possibly invalid divorce could have risked the wife's ability to claim benefits through her husband's earnings... [...]
Relocations from the Judge's Perspective
Parent and child relocation cases are some of the most challenging. If denied, a parent may be forced to move without their child. If granted, a parent is crushed, a child could be harmed, and there is a timesharing schedule to work out.
Judge Sally D.M. Kest is a judge in Orange County. She recently published an article in The Commentator.
Judge Kest has found that many attorneys do not comply... [...]
