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Miami Probate Attorney’s Guide to Preventing Intestate Succession
A Probate Attorney’s Guide to Preventing Intestate Succession in Miami FLFlorida residents often fail to understand the importance of estate planning. However, without the services of a probate attorney in Miami, they could find courts ignoring their wishes when they...
Designing a Custody Plan for Your Child Over the Holidays
For divorced couples with children, making sure their little ones don’t miss out during the holidays is challenging. Deciding which parent will have custody over the holidays is a minefield. This is especially the case if the court has awarded one parent a greater custody percentage.
Florida Probate Attorney Guide for Contesting Wills
Sometimes wills don’t accurately reflect the wishes of the deceased. Knowing how you can contest the will could prevent somebody from profiting inappropriately. As a Miami probate attorney, this is our expert advice to help in such a situation.
Difference Between Limited Power of Attorney and Durable Power of Attorney in Florida
While hopefully it will not be needed, there may come a time when you might need a power of attorney or need to become one for a loved one. A power of attorneyis a written document granting authority from one individual to another by which the individual (the...
Guardianship In Florida Guide From Family Lawyer In Miami FL
There are numerous situations that could result in another individual being named a child’s guardian. This expert advice from a family lawyer in Miami, FL, helps to explain what guardianship means in Florida.
Floridian’s Guide To Will Execution Requirements
The law in Florida puts a strong emphasis on statute compliance when it comes to will execution. As a probate attorney in Miami, it’s a key duty to ensure you have followed all statutory provisions when executing wills. Should you not comply with the requirements, the will could be invalidated.
Family Law Attorney’s Fees in Miami
When one parent is voluntarily unemployed or underemployed in a time-sharing modification, it matters when a party is seeking family law attorney’s fees in Miami.
Time-Sharing Modifications: Proving a Substantial Change in Circumstances is a High Burden to Overcome
Upon final judgment regarding dissolution of marriage, either the parents agreed, or the court determined, the child’s time-sharing plan. But what happens when some time passes since the initial time-sharing plan and the other parent now believes there has been...
Pets in Florida Divorces have it ‘Ruff
In many homes, pets are treated as part of the family but in the eyes of most divorce courts in the U.S., including Florida, the law views our furry friends as nothing more than marital property—meaning, like your home, they are awarded to one or the other party....
Appeals of Non-Final Orders in Family Law Cases
The term “non-final order,” also known as an “interlocutory order,” is a temporary order entered before the end of a case and entry of a Final Judgment. An appeal cannot be taken from every non-final order family law case. The following is a list of non-final orders...
Some Divorce Obligations can be Discharged in Bankruptcy
The old adage “the only guarantees in life are death and taxes” must have been uttered before the inception of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a...
The Effect of the New Tax Law on Alimony
Currently, when an ex-spouse is legally obligated to pay alimony, the ex-spouse gets a tax deduction even if the ex-spouse doesn’t itemize the deduction whereas the receiving spouse must include the alimony as taxable income. Many divorce agreements took that into...
Pour Over Wills
A pour-over will is a special type of last will and testament used in conjunction with a trust-based estate plan. It can save the day when the grantor of a trust -- the person who created it -- neglects to transfer all his property into the trust over the years and...
Why Mediation Works
You Have a Chance to be Heard In contrast to court, where you won’t get to talk to each other, the divorce mediation process offers both the setting and support you may need to talk. Directly. And this is critical because this is the time when parties often are...
Minors and Probate
People don’t often associate minors with probate, but personal injury settlement for persons under the age of 18 can be tricky because these settlements require the attorney to be vigilant of special procedural requirements in cases involving minors. To begin with,...
Exploring Six Common Myths about Trusts
Most of us know that a trust is a useful way to safeguard financial assets for your benefit or for someone else. But the common misconceptions about trusts could cause you to bypass them entirely, or plan to use them improperly. Myth #1: Now that Federal Law Allows a...
BEING PREPARED: Who will take care of mom if she needs long-term assistance?
Women typically outlive men by an average of about five years. According to AARP, more than two-thirds of Americans 85 years or older are women. And about 79 % of 65-year-old women will need long term care in their lifetime, according to a recent study by the...
Co-parenting isn’t easy, but isn’t unattainable either.
Jessica Ciencin Henriquez pens an honest essay about raising a son with ex-husband/actor, Josh Lucas. Her words ring true to many ears when she says, “What I know now and desperately needed to hear then is this: Let go of the family you thought you’d be and accept the...
Filing taxes with your estranged spouse
Divorces are messy. Filing taxes with your estranged spouse is even messier. Now, throw in tax changes in 2018 from D.C.'s recent tax reform. It is a lot to process. Read here to find some updates to the tax laws as it applies to divorcing, or divorced, individuals as...
Winded: A Legal Career Is Not a Sprint
By Aislynn Thomas-McDonald, Esq. “When you run, your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.” —Tim Noakes Sometimes, lawyers can be somewhat...
Tis’ the Season: Keep the Peace (Better) with Ten Co-Parenting Holiday Tips
10. Don’t push send. Email. Text. IM. Tweet. Whatever. When you ex irritates you and you are tempted to shoot back a zinger, resist. Wait three hours and revisit the issue once you’ve calmed down. Then, craft a diplomatic response. 9. Be flexible. What goes around,...
Estate Planning for Single Parents is Especially Important
No one with young children wants to think that something might happen to them. But for a single parent, that difficult thought brings on added worries. After all, what will happen to your child should the unthinkable happen. Everyone with children should prepare a...
Are you thinking about moving to warmer weather? Some states offer other benefits in addition to extra sunshine.
Are you thinking about moving to warmer weather for the winter or relocating on a permanent basis? Sunshine states may not be the only benefit of such a move—lower income and estate tax rates may make the change of scenery more appealing in some places. But changing...
Women: When Divorce Changes Your Relationship Status, Your Financial Strategy Needs to Change Too
When you get a divorce, your entire world changes. But at a time when it may feel like things are spiraling out of control, there are plenty of things you have the ability to control, two of which have to do with your financial future. And both of these two things...
Can My Spouse Claim Retirement Benefits in a Divorce?
When you’re getting a divorce, you may wonder if your spouse has a claim on any of your retirement benefits. Or you may hope that you can claim a share of the family’s retirement benefits because you did not factor a divorce into your life plan until recently,...
5 Single Parent Strategies for Communicating with your Child’s Other Parent
London-based Jennifer Broadly has been a successful single parent for many years. She offers some valuable thoughts about how best to communicate with your child’s other parent. While some of the phrases and word spelling is slightly different than American English,...
Fertility Treatment Costs Out Of Reach For Most Americans
Families spend more than $230,000 on average to raise kids from birth to age 17 — a figure that doesn’t include the cost of college. Huff Post— For the 6.9 million families who have turned to fertility services, the bills pile up well before they ever hold a baby in...
Signs of Hostile Aggressive Parenting (HAP)
Had no idea there's a name for this behavior. Painful watching this unfold with someone you love, here are signs of Hostile Aggressive Parenting (HAP) and interventional strategies to stop Psychological Child Abuse: Not willing to participate in any reasonable form...
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Family • Trial and Appellate Practice • Divorce, Child Custody/Time-Sharing, Marital Agreements • Adoption and Surrogacy Law • Collaborative Divorce/Family Law • Probate Administration & Litigation • Wills and Trusts • Guardianship & Elder Law • Family Mediation • TROs (Temporary Restraining Orders) and Domestic Violence • Pre-suit or Court Ordered Mediation • Educational Advocacy Consultant for 504 and IEPs
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