Post on Nov. 11, 2019

“I can tell the judge HATES me.”It can be disconcerting for a spouse in a divorce trial to get the impression that the judge dislikes them. Even worse, the judge could express outright disdain or anger at the spouse. If a party to a divorce proceeding feels the judge’s bias against them could...

Post on Oct. 30, 2019

Yesterday, we introduced the issue of whether and how a Florida judge in a divorce should classify and divide passive appreciation on nonmarital real estate that secured a mortgage paid down with marital funds. As we said, the Florida Supreme Court faced this issue in Kaaa v. Kaaa. Historically,...

Post on Oct. 29, 2019

When a spouse brings preowned real estate into marriage, does not add the other spouse to the title and later divorces, the nonmarital property owner may think that he or she will and should get the passive increase in market value when divorce occurs down the road.Put differently, that little...

Post on Oct. 27, 2019

If a spouse dies during a divorce proceeding, you can imagine the many legal and personal issues that can arise. To answer the above question, it is very rare in Florida to get divorced after one party has died after the divorce was filed, but before the court issues a final order that the parties...

Post on Oct. 20, 2019

Did your spouse run up large credit card bills without your knowledge? Take out a consumer loan without talking to you first? Now that divorce is on the horizon, are you afraid that you might get stuck with some of that debt, which you had nothing to do with? Should you be concerned? It depends....