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Myth #8-The Unemployed Spouse has the Advantage, So Quit THIS IS NOT TRUE! NO, absolutely not. The courts look at income, true. However if the court has reason to believe that one spouse is “voluntarily” unemployed, or worse, unemployed to manipulate the end result of the divorce, the judge may “impute” income to the unemployed spouse. What […]

Myth #8 – Kids Get To Chose Their Parent THIS IS NOT TRUE! The fact of the matter is that children learn from the day they were born how to manipulate their parent to get what they want. Hungry? Cry for attention. That worked, lesson learned. Children, especially young children, are not mature enough to make the […]

Myth #6 – Contested Divorces are Best Managed in Court THIS IS NOT TRUE! This is not always the case. It is not patently false though. Contested divorces are the ones where divorcing couples cannot agree on the terms of their divorce, typically they are intractable around issues of division of assets, or time-sharing with the children […]

Myth #5 – Whoever is on the Title, Gets the Property THIS IS NOT TRUE! Absolutely false. If the asset, whether a car or a vacation home, was acquired during the marriage, it is marital property subject to equitable distribution between the parties by the court. Things get a little more complicated with assets that were acquired […]

Myth #4 – Adulterers Lose Divorce Cases THIS IS NOT TRUE! Once upon a time, if a spouse cheated, they were not entitled to alimony. That is no longer the case, under most circumstances. Florida is a “no fault” state, meaning that one of the parties needs to believe the marriage is irretrievably broken. “Fault” does not […]

Myth #3 – Women Have an Advantage Over Men in Custody THIS IS NOT TRUE! Florida law explicitly states that there is no advantage to custody based on gender. Custody is, in fact, no longer even used in Florida Law. When it comes to time-sharing, all the factors that govern time-sharing between parents are typically guided by […]