Blog Posts in January, 2014

Helping Your Teen Cope with Divorce

Slammed doors, angry silence, dangerous risk-taking. Normal teen behavior or teen reactions to the parents’ divorce? It can be hard to tell. Divorce is hard on teenagers, and they may engage in rebellious behavior as a result. For teens, this change comes at a time when they already may be overwhelmed with the transition out of adolescence. However, with your love, support, and guidance, they can ...

Protecting Your Professional Practice During Divorce

Doctors, lawyers, accountants, dentists and other professionals invest many years of education and hard work in their practices. If you divorce, however, your professional practice could be in jeopardy if a court decides that it is martial property. Even if you owned your practice before your marriage, some portion of the practice could be marital property if its value increased during the ...

Florida Divorce After Supreme Court Ruling on DOMA

It has never been easier for same-sex couples to marry than it is today, but what about divorce? Oddly, it may not be as easy to untie the knot as it is to tie it. A recent Supreme Court decision, United States v. Windsor, held that the federal Defense of Marriage Act’s (DOMA) definition of marriage as “a union between one man and one woman as husband and wife” was unconstitutional. This decision ...

Can You Extend Your Stay With a B Visa?

If you are visiting the United States on a B-1 or B-2 visa, you may be offered the chance to stay on a bit longer. Because these visas are issued on a temporary basis, you cannot simply stay on without making legal arrangements to extend your stay. That said, there are options by which you may be able to extend your B visa to accommodate a longer stay in the U.S. You should file a request with ...

Five Tips for Winning Your Parenting Plan Battle

If you are a divorced parent who wants to be allowed to spend more time with your children under a Florida parenting plan, here are a couple of things you shouldn’t do: Don’t send your ex-spouse a cake with a grenade on top. If you should be fortunate enough to win a court battle to spend more time with your children, don’t gloat about it on Twitter and call your ex-spouse a “chubby weirdo.” Who ...