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

K. Dean Kantaras has been publishing articles for the past 13 years with Tampa Bay Magazine. Follow the links below to read a selection of his articles on marital and family law.


A. General

  1. The Layer-Client Privileges
  2. The Lawyer-Client Relationship
  3. Trials, Hearings, and Depositions Are Not Open to Everyone
  4. Family Law: Changes Have a Significant Impact
  5. The Costs of a Divorce Can Survive a Death

B. Divorce

  1. Marriage and Divorce: Stormy Seas and Hurricanes
  2. There is No Divorce Without a Marriage
  3. Divorce and Cyberspace
  4. Divorce and the Anger Factor
  5. Divorce and Your Personal Life: It's Public Domain
  6. No Fault Divorce: Don't Change It
  7. Divorce and the Elderly
  8. Religion and Divorce: A Second Separation of Church and State
  9. 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
  4. Be Wise: The "Whys" of Prenuptial 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. Yours, Mine & Ours: Not the Kids – the Property!
  9. Real Property in a Divorce

 

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