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Tips for Easing Your Child’s Transitions
When the parents of young children divorce, children who transition between parental homes can develop mild, moderate or severe degrees of separation anxiety. While some issues with separation are normal in young children facing dramatic changes in their lives, separation difficulties can prove highly disruptive to both children and their parents. If your child is […]
Parent-Trashing Can Cause Depression in Children
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) — a series of behaviors by one parent to create physical and emotional distance between a child and the target parent — is an extreme version of a common problem. In most divorces, parents find themselves occasionally venting angry, bitter and hurt feelings about their former spouse to the child or […]
Why Are We Rushing the Wedding?
The state of Florida has a three-day waiting period from the time you acquire a marriage license until you can get married. You must use the license within 60 days, and you can have your wedding in any Florida county you wish. If your partner-to-be is in a hurry to tie the knot, proceed with […]
Keeping Co-Parenting Positive
Parenting can be challenging under the best of circumstances. When parents are divorced and need to continue to parent the children they share, the complexities of the adult relationship can interfere with the shared goals of raising healthy children. Here are some tips to help divorced parents raise children together in a more loving, supportive […]
Child Support Beyond the Age of Majority
Divorced parents — like all parents — share the obligation to provide education, food, clothing, medical care and housing for their children until they reach emancipation. In some cases, the need to support a child financially stretches beyond the age of 18. If your child is over 18 but remains financially dependent, you and your […]
A Brief History of the Premarital Agreement
A premarital agreement is a relatively new concept in its current form — a means of determining the distribution of a couple’s assets in the event of death or divorce — but it is not an entirely new concept. There are a number of examples of premarital agreements throughout history — from ancient civilizations to […]
Cyberstalking on the Rise in Florida
Cyberstalking is defined as a pattern of repeated messages delivered by electronic means and designed to instill fear in the victim. Platforms for cyberstalking include Facebook, email, phone, fax, text message, Instagram and any other means available. Cyberstalkers use the anonymity of the Internet and cellphone to post threatening photos, videos and other messages to […]
How Can I Make Changes in My Parenting Plan?
During the divorce, couples with children formulate a parenting plan as part of a divorce agreement. The parenting plan includes the details of how residency and time-sharing are to be divided, as well as the particulars of managing and sharing the various responsibilities and developmental needs of children. When might modification be in order? As […]
How Should Parenting Time Be Divided?
Children face physical and emotional upheaval when their parents divorce. Even in the most peaceful of separations, the previously unified home of a child becomes divided when parents split up. In order to preserve the mental and physical well-being of children of divorce, Florida law holds the best interest of the child as the core […]
Who Pays College Tuition?
Many parents are intimated by the enormous expense of college education for their children. Florida law requires all parents to support their children until the age of majority. Divorced parents share the responsibility as outlined in their support agreements. Many agreements do not address the issue of higher education since the child is over 18 […]
