Court CANNOT Order Restrictions on Religious Upbringing Unless Harm Shown…Each Parent Has the Right to Have Their Child Participate in the Religion of Their Choosing A court does not have the power to order restrictions on parents regarding religious upbringing, subject to harm to child shown. For instance, inPierson v. Pierson, 1D14-79 (Fla. 2014), the…
Sure, you may recognize the familiar rule that alimony terminates upon death or remarriage. However, alimony can also be terminated or modified when a former spouse begins cohabitating with another individual.However, cohabitiation is only grounds for a modification of alimonywhen that cohabitation is “financially beneficial” — meaning that the boyfriend or girlfriend of the former…
The Florida Debit Mastercard Program is a new way to receive your child support payments if you receive your payments via the Florida State Disbursement Unit (rather than directly from your former spouse). The State of Florida automatically processes these payments to a debit card which you can then use everyewhere Mastercard is accepted, including…
A new criminal law on stalking goes into effect in Florida on October 1, 2012. (See Section 784.0485, Fla. Stat.) Corresponding changes have been made to the Family Law Rules of Procedure; see especially Section 12.610. Do you have a cause of action for stalking? See the statutory definitions below: Stalking: when aperson willfully, maliciously,…
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…
