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What Happens to a College Savings Account for My Kids in a Divorce?
Do you and your spouse share one or more minor children from your marriage? If so, you may have already started saving for your child’s college education. Parents can create college savings accounts or funds in many different ways. Some parents create a Florida 529 Plan or a Florida Prepaid Plan, while others establish… Read More »
How to Locate Concealed Assets in Florida Divorces
In any Florida divorce, both spouses are required to disclose all property — including assets and debts — that you believe are owned together as marital property or separately. You must disclose this information by completing a sworn statement. The court will then assess the information provided by both spouses and will determine which… Read More »
Can You Reduce or End Alimony When You Retire in Florida?
Alimony obligations are often set years, or even decades, before the paying spouse reaches retirement age. What happens when that day finally arrives? Can a Florida court reduce or terminate alimony simply because the paying spouse has stopped working? The answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no, and it depends on… Read More »
Planning for Your Online Accounts: Digital Assets in a Florida Estate Plan
Many people spend years building a traditional estate plan that addresses real property, bank accounts, and personal belongings, while overlooking an entire category of assets that now makes up a meaningful part of daily life: digital accounts. Email inboxes, social media profiles, cloud storage, cryptocurrency wallets, and online banking portals all hold value or… Read More »
What Are “Best Interests” Factors in Child Custody Cases?
When you have minor children with a partner or spouse and your relationship is ending, you will need to prepare for a child custody case in Florida. Under Florida law, the language of “child custody” is not actually used any longer, but instead has been replaced with the language of parental responsibilities, time-sharing, and… Read More »
Can I Keep Our House in the Divorce?
Divorce is often one of the most stressful experiences that a person will go through, even when it is a relatively amicable divorce process. One of the major issues that concerns spouses in divorces is the division of marital property, especially when one of the spouses very much wants to be able to stay… Read More »
What is a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage?
Are you considering divorce and wondering about the steps in the process, or the types of documents you will need to file in order to move forward with the process of legally ending your marriage? If you have begun researching divorce in Florida, you may have found information about divorce in Chapter 61 of… Read More »
What is a Gray Divorce in Florida?
Over the past decade or so, the term “gray divorce” has become used in relation to a trend in divorce filings: those among older adults. The language of the “gray divorce” came into use back in 2012 following a published study by researchers at Bowling Green State University. What those researchers determined was that… Read More »
Who Needs a QDRO in a Florida Divorce?
Anyone who is planning to file for divorce in Florida or who is in the process of getting divorced in the state will need to be aware of the way in which Florida handles the classification and distribution of property. Under the Florida Statutes, Florida uses a system of property distribution known as “equitable… Read More »
How Does Child Support Work in Florida?
Florida is one of many states that uses an “income shares” model to calculate child support obligations when spouses divorce or when couples end their relationships but share minor children. In these circumstances, child support issues are typically determined alongside parental responsibilities and time-sharing (previously known as legal and physical child custody up until… Read More »
