Family courts carefully balance protecting children with maintaining meaningful parent-child relationships. When safety concerns arise, supervised visitation allows children to spend time with a parent while providing oversight to prevent potential harm. Supervised...
Driving under the influence (DUI) in Florida comes with dire consequences. Even a first offense can lead to costly fines, jail time and losing your driver’s license. Understanding the penalties can help you make better choices and avoid long-term problems. Fines for a...
Co-parenting can be difficult even under the best of circumstances, but if your ex is vindictive, the need to remain consistently in contact with them – and cooperative with them, to a degree – can feel almost impossible. As you are almost certainly aware, your...
Maybe it’s your first time dealing with the criminal justice system. Maybe it’s not. Either way, you’re likely feeling overwhelmed, embarrassed or even scared of what lies ahead. That’s completely normal, but you need a clear plan. How you respond in the hours and...
As you meticulously plan your wedding day, you are likely also considering the foundations of your shared future. A prenuptial agreement often comes up as a tool to outline financial understandings. But when children enter the picture, can this agreement also...
A breath test will measure your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) after a traffic stop. Officers will give out breath tests to see if you’ve exceeded the legal limit of 0.08%. If you have, you could then face drunk driving charges, and the court will presume you were...
People often talk about divorce in broad, sweeping terms. They may describe it as stressful and unpredictable. They may also assert that people who divorce tend to experience significant financial setbacks. After all, divorce is a relatively costly process. Spouses...
Physical child custody rights must be addressed when two parents get divorced. The child may primarily live with one parent but see the other periodically, such as during visitations. In other situations, parents may share time with the child equally. But the physical...
Opioid medication is powerful. There are numerous synthetic opioid pain relievers that have helped reduce the cost of pain management and make medication more accessible to the public. Long gone are the days of opiate shortages that leave people without the pain...
An interesting thing has been happening to the divorce rate for older couples. For many Americans, it has been dropping. But if you look at the statistics for divorce involving those over 65, going back to 1990, you’ll see that the divorce rate has tripled. This is a...
