Blog Posts in August, 2016

When Can Your Spouse Lay Claim to Your Separate Property?

When a couple seeks a divorce in Florida, their assets and debts are divided according to the principles ofequitable distribution. That means each spouse keeps their separate property, and marital property is divided in a manner the court considers fair, but not necessarily equally. So, you should have the right to keep all of your separate property: these consist of the assets you acquired before ...

Judge Rules Against Cuban Migrants Who Climbed Offshore Lighthouse

Judge Rules Against Cuban Migrants Who Climbed Offshore Lighthouse Judge Rules Against Cuban Migrants Who Climbed Offshore Lighthouse According to a federal court judge hearing their asylum case, 24 Cuban migrants who scaled the American Shoal Lighthouse, which is 6.5 miles off the coast of Key West, did not touch “dry land.” The ruling means the men who surrendered to the U.S. Coast Guard after a ...

Credit Card Debt and Divorce in Florida

Traditionally, the division of property during a divorce has mostly been focused on what to do with the family home, investments, furniture and vehicles. Today, with so many Americans owing substantial amounts on their credit cards, the divorce process often includes the division of debts. Certain types of credit card debt belong to only one spouse and therefore aren’t affected by the divorce. ...

What Happens to Pets During a Florida Divorce?

Everybody knows how serious and painful custody battles can be during a divorce, but what happens when the children involved aren’t humans but family pets? To many people, animals are just as much a part of the family as their own flesh and blood, and the prospect of losing them in a divorce is hard to deal with. So how does Florida law deal with issues of pet ownership during the divorce process? ...

Who Gets to Keep the House in a Florida Divorce Case?

If you are at the beginning of the Florida divorce process, one of your greatest concerns might be about your home. Who will get it? Will either of you get to keep it? Will your children be able to keep living there? The answers to these questions depend on a variety of factors. To understand the likely outcomes, it is important to have a basic grasp of how Florida divorce law works. Property ...