What is “dissipation of marital assets?”Dissipation of marital assets is “where one spouse uses marital funds for his or her own benefit and for a purpose unrelated to the marriage at a time when the marriage is undergoing an irreconciliable breakdown.”Rabbath v. Farid, 4 So. 3d 778, 780. For instance, dissipation occurs where a spouse…
A child support hearing officer in a Department of Revenue child support case may not deviate from the Child Support Guidelines based on any informal, or non-court ordered, parenting schedule between the parties.  Florida Department of Revenue OBO Johnson v. Zackery, Fla. 1st DCA Case No. 1D11-6359 (Fla. 1st DCA June 25, 2012). Deviation from the child…