By Yueh-Mei Kim Nutter, Esq. Understandably, you want to avoid the court system. Understandably, you want to avoid attorneys and legal fees. After all, you already went through this once and have a Final Judgement and that includes payment for child support and/or alimony. You were able to reach an agreement with your former [...]
By: David A. Riggs According to the Florida Supreme Court in a 2000 case called Mallard v. Mallard, alimony is not intended to provide for the accumulation of capital (i.e., savings) by the alimony recipient. It is intended to provide current necessary support to the alimony recipient. “Savings alimony”, as some courts have phrased [...]
Brinkley Morgan family law attorney Yueh-Mei Kim Nutter is featured on “Legal News & Review (LNR),” discussing the potential impacts of Senate Bill 590, the benefits of collaborative law, and bitcoins in divorce cases. LNR is an award winning radio program hosted by Philip Bell and recognized by The Florida Bar. [...]
By: David A. Riggs So, you think that you have been married to this wonderful person for oh so many years. Some of them good years. Some of them excellent years. Some of them not-so-good years. Then one day after a few years of marriage, you hear that your spouse may have still been [...]
By: Jonathan Z. Schiller Most forms of alimony terminate upon the remarriage of the recipient, such as bridge-the-gap, durational, and permanent alimony. See 61.16(5), (7) & (8), Fla. Stat. (2016). However, there is no incentive for a former spouse receiving alimony to get remarried. The alimony recipient will cohabitate with their significant other and [...]
By: Jodi Furr Colton Simply put, the purpose of a vocational evaluation is to determine how much money a person could likely earn if he or she entered or returned to the workforce. The amount a person could earn is directly related to how much alimony a court may award. Florida’s alimony statute, Fla. Stat. [...]
By: Yueh-Mei Kim Nutter Alimony reform is back again. Will it become law? The current bill has terms that are substantially similar to the bill the Governor vetoed in 2016 because of the presumption of equal timesharing of children, but the current bill removes reference to any timesharing presumption. There are similar versions in the [...]
Brinkley Morgan family law partner Kenneth A. Gordon discusses three different types of agreements involved in marital law: 1) Prenuptial Agreements; 2) Marital Settlement Agreements; and 3) Post-nuptial Agreements.
By: David A. Riggs One of the hot topics when Florida divorce lawyers get together is the Florida alimony statute and whether it will ever be reformed and, if so, what will that reform look like. As stated in other posts on this website, in 2013, the Florida legislature, with strong bipartisan support, passed an [...]
By: Julia Wyda On Friday, June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court issued its 5-4 ruling in favor of marriage equality, finding that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. There were two questions before the Court. First, whether states could ban same-sex marriage. Second, whether states were required to recognize lawful marriages [...]