Family Law Articles

K. Dean Kantaras is Board Certified in Marital and Family Law by the Florida Bar

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.

• Family Law Articles
• Questionnaires
• Legal Links

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A. General

1. The Lawyer-Client Relationship
2. Trials, Hearings, and Depositions Are Not Open to Everyone

B. Divorce

1. Marriage and Divorce: Stormy Seas and Hurricanes
2. There is No Divorce Without a Marriage
3. Divorce and the Anger Factor
4. Divorce and Your Personal Life: It's Public Domain
5. No Fault Divorce: Don’t Change It
6. Divorce and the Elderly
7. Religion and Divorce: A Second Separation of Church and State
8. Divorce Military Style
9. Immigration and Divorce

C. Agreements

1. Keep Your Word: A Court May Insist You Do
2. Premarital Agreements: Their Future in Florida
3. Settlement Agreements

D. Property /Equitable Distribution

1. Equitable Distribution: What’s Not Included
2. Property Division: As the Law Changes
3. Determining How to Divide Marital Assets
4. Special Equity: What Does it Mean and How is it Calculated?
5. Florida is Not a Community Property State
6. You Think That’s Your Property—Maybe Not
7. Valuations in Divorce Litigation
8. Life Insurance Maybe a Marital Asset

E. Alimony & Child Support

1. The Law Catches Up
2. Family Law: Changes Have a Significant Impact
3. Alimony and Child Support: How Much Do I Have to Pay?
4. Alimony: a Fact of Life
5. Child Support: It Could Be a Lifetime Obligation
6. Enforcement of Child Support and Alimony
7. Alimony: Health and Other Factors Matter
8. Alimony: It Can be Modified
9. Retirement and Its Effect on Alimony
10. A Change in the Law of Alimony by Foreign Judgments
11. Alimony and Child Support: Imputed Income
12. Permanent Alimony: Florida's Solution
13. Child Support is Based on Income

F. Custody

1. Custody: A Child is at Stake
2. Custody: A Constant Sociological Struggle
3. Changes in Custody Law: Intended to Benefit Children
4. Consider the Children First
5. Concern Yourself With Your Children's Welfare
6. Parental Responsibility: Sole or Shared?
7. Extended Family and Custody
8. Custody Modification Made Easier
9. Custody Evaluations
10. Parental Coordinators: a Hope for Children

G. Relocation

1. What Do You Mean I Can't Move!
2. A Judge’s Perspective on “Removal”

H. Expert Witnesses

1. Expert Witnesses May Evaluate You
2. Divorce and the Expert Witness

I. Paternity

1. Fatherhood: How it is Determined
2. Paternity in Florida

J. Mediation

1. Any Case Can Be Settled: The Lawyer's Role in Mediation

K. Special Issues

1. Judge Shopping
2. Contempt: a Powerful Tool
3. A Major Dilemma: Adoption & Marriage

L. Appeals

1. Appeals Are Difficult to Win

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Questionnaires

• Dissolution of Marriage Questionnaire
• Post-Dissolution of Marriage Questionnaire
• Paternity Questionnaire

Helpful Legal Links

• Parents, Children & Divorce Classes
• The Florida Bar
• The American Bar Association
• Supreme Court
• Florida Department of Children & Families

Local Courts

• Pinellas/Pasco Counties – Sixth Judicial Circuit – Clerk of the Circuit Court
• Hillsborough County - Thirteenth Judicial Circuit - Clerk of the Circuit Court
• Hernando County – Fifth Judicial Circuit

Forensic Accountants

• Pat Perzel, CPA, Perzel & Lara Forensic CPAs, P.A.
• Briggs P. Stahl, CPA, Stahl Consulting Group, PA,
• C. Todd Burg, CPA, McClanathan, Burg & Arndt, LLC
• Louis Ortiz, CPA, Garcia & Ortiz, PA
• Jennifer Ross, CPA, Litigation Support Advisors, PLC
• Mike Lewis, CPA, Lewis, Birch & Ricardo, LLC
• Kathy Mills, CPA, Lewis, Birch & Ricardo, LLC
• Anthony Phillips, CPA, Lewis, Birch & Ricardo, LLC

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