Legal Resources and Links 

• Questionnaires
• Helpful Legal Links
• Articles on Family Law by K. Dean Kantaras, Esq.

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

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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

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

B. Divorce

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

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

E. Alimony & Child Support

1. Alimony and Child Support: How Much Do I Have to Pay?
2. Alimony: a Fact of Life
3. Child Support: It Could Be a Lifetime Obligation
4. Enforcement of Child Support and Alimony
5. Alimony: Health and Other Factors Matter 
6. Alimony: It Can be Modified
7. Retirement and It's Effect on Alimony
8. A Change in the Law of Alimony by Foreign Judgments

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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