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Selling Family Home – Divorce Strategies
Okay, now we’ve come to one of the more difficult parts of the process – selling the family home. Not that the mechanics of the sale are anything out of the ordinary – this is something realtors do every day of the week. What’s difficult is the “letting go” part of the sale, your willingness […]
Living Expenses – Divorce Strategies
Being mundane, day-to-day matters an accurate accounting of living expenses is often neglected in cases of divorce. Once you begin to tally everything though those expenses can mount very quickly and take you by surprise. The other side of that same coin, however, is that your spouse may tend to be overly aggressive when calculating […]
Workers’ Compensation: COVID-19 Compensation
Are you an employee of a company? What do you know about your workers’ compensation rights? Most employees know very little about this protection. By law in the state of Florida, every employer with more four or more employees, (or 1 in the construction field) must...
Healthy Compromise – Divorce Strategies
Okay, this is one bit of advice that may cause you to grind your teeth, but here it is nonetheless: Considering a healthy compromise in some areas. That probably flies in the face of what you’d rather do by instinct, which is to go for everything you can grab if for no other reason than […]
Divorce Strategies – Be on your Guard
There is a saying sometimes attributed to Chinese folklore that can be applied to divorce: “Do not beat drums before you hunt for tigers”. So how is it applicable? It’s an admonition against saying too much about the divorce until things are actually underway. This is especially important when dealing with financial matters – too […]
General Expenses – Divorce Strategies
Considering that divorce-related legal fees are the proverbial “500-pound gorilla in the room” and far too obvious to ignore, many other general expenses are sometimes overlooked – until the end of the month comes and you find yourself wondering what has happened to your money. How about some examples? Have you been doing additional paperwork […]
Health Insurance – Divorce Strategies
Overlooked Divorce Strategies – Health Insurance With the myriad other things that are happening during a divorce one very critical item may often escape your attention – maintaining your health insurance without any gaps in coverage. The without any gaps in coverage part of that previous statement merits special attention. Even if part of the […]
Worst States for Divorce – Divorce Strategies
The previous installment in our Divorce Strategies series dealt with how some states are better than others for getting a divorce; in that entry, the best states were covered. Knowing that there is a flip side to every coin, it must be expected that there would be a list of states that are some of […]
Best States for Divorce – Divorce Strategies
As might be expected with the broad spectrum of divorce laws across the nation, some states are better than others when getting a divorce. ‘Better’ in this case includes such things as which divorce laws are easiest to understand and are most lenient. Along with these factors such other matters as ease of filing, overall […]
Property Division Varies by State – Divorce Strategies
In this one case, it is important to note that Florida is NOT considered a community property state when it comes to a division of marital assets. There is no presumption of an automatic 50/50 split of property in a divorce. Florida is what is called an equitable property state. We’ve already covered four different […]