Legal Resources and Links
Questionnaires
- Dissolution of Marriage Questionnaire
- Post-Dissolution of Marriage Questionnaire
- Paternity Questionnaire
Helpful Legal Links
- The Florida Bar, www.floridabar.org
- The American Bar Association, www.abanet.org
- Supreme Court, www.supremecourtus.gov
- Pinellas/Pasco Counties – Sixth Judicial Circuit – Clerk of the Circuit Court, www.jud6.org
- Hillsborough County - Thirteenth Judicial Circuit - Clerk of the Circuit Court, www.fljud13.org
- Hernando County – Fifth Judicial Circuit, http://circuit5.org/top.html
- Parents, Children & Divorce Classes, http://pcdclasses.educationprograms.com/Florida-Divorce-Classes.php
- Florida Department of Children & Families, www.state.fl.us/cf_web/
- Pat Perzel, Perzel & Lara, http://www.perzellara.com
- Briggs Stahl, Stahl Consulting Group, PA, http://www.stahlconsulting.com
Articles
Attorney K. Dean Kantaras has published many articles on legal issues with Tampa Bay Magazine. Follow the links below to read a selection of his articles on marital and family law.
A. General
B. Divorce
- There is No Divorce Without a Marriage
- Divorce and the Anger Factor
- Divorce and Your Personal Life: It's Public Domain
- No Fault Divorce: Don’t Change It
- Divorce and the Elderly
- Religion and Divorce: A Second Separation of Church and State
- Divorce Military Style
C. Agreements
- Keep Your Word: A Court May Insist You Do
- Premarital Agreements: Their Future in Florida
- Settlement Agreements
D. Property /Equitable Distribution
- Equitable Distribution: What’s Not Included
- Property Division: As the Law Changes
- Determining How to Divide Marital Assets
- Special Equity: What Does it Mean and How is it Calculated?
- Florida is Not a Community Property State
- You Think That’s Your Property—Maybe Not
- Valuations in Divorce Litigation
E. Alimony & Child Support
- Alimony and Child Support: How Much Do I Have to Pay?
- Alimony: a Fact of Life
- Child Support: It Could Be a Lifetime Obligation
- Enforcement of Child Support and Alimony
- Alimony: Health and Other Factors Matter
- Alimony: It Can be Modified
- Retirement and It's Effect on Alimony
- A Change in the Law of Alimony by Foreign Judgments
F. Custody
- Custody: A Child is at Stake
- Custody: A Constant Sociological Struggle
- Changes in Custody Law: Intended to Benefit Children
- Consider the Children First
- Concern Yourself With Your Children's Welfare
- Parental Responsibility: Sole or Shared?
- Extended Family and Custody
- Custody Modification Made Easier
- Custody Evaluations
- Parental Coordinators: a Hope for Children
G. Relocation
H. Expert Witnesses
I. Paternity
J. Mediation
K. Special Issues
L. Appeals





