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Understanding Imputed Income in Florida Family Law Cases
In Florida family law cases, financial disclosures play a critical role in determining issues such as child support and alimony. However, not all parties accurately report their income. In situations where a court believes a person is underreporting or voluntarily earning less than they are capable of, it may assign what is known as imputed income.
By Grant Gisondo6 months ago in Families
A Dad Who Didn’t Know What to Expect at a MIAM - Until He Attended One
I Thought It Was Going to Be the Worst Morning of My Life I remember sitting in my car outside the office building for about ten minutes before I went in. Just sitting there, engine off, watching other people walk past with their coffees and their normal days, thinking: how did I end up here?
By Jess Knauf7 months ago in Families
“The Love That Never Dies 💔”. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
The rain had a strange way of reminding Ayaan of her. It wasn’t just the sound—soft, steady, and almost comforting. It was the feeling. The way it touched everything, quietly, like a memory that refused to leave. Just like her.
By Heart Touching Stories7 months ago in Families
A Couple Who Couldn’t Agree on Ongoing Financial Support
There was a spreadsheet. That's what I remember most from those first few weeks after Gary moved out. He'd emailed it to me, sixteen rows, colour-coded, with a column for what he thought was fair and a column left blank for my response. As if eleven years of marriage could be reduced to a shared Google doc.
By Family Law Service7 months ago in Families
The Legal Difference Between Legal and Physical Custody in Florida
When dealing with family law matters involving children, many people are familiar with the terms “legal custody” and “physical custody.” However, Florida law no longer uses these exact terms. Instead, the state has adopted updated terminology that better reflects the goal of shared parenting and active involvement from both parents.
By Grant Gisondo7 months ago in Families
How to Protect Yourself Before, During, and After Separation
Separation is one of the most stressful and life-altering experiences a person can go through. Beyond the emotional toll, there are serious legal and financial implications that can have long-lasting effects if not handled properly.
By Mike Smith7 months ago in Families
A Couple Who Didn’t Know Where to Start With Divorce
The morning we finally admitted it was over, I was standing in the kitchen making toast. Not even proper breakfast, just toast, because neither of us had been to the supermarket in two weeks. Mark was sitting at the table with his phone face-down in front of him, which he'd started doing a lot, and I remember thinking: we can't even fight about this. We're too tired to fight.
By Family Law Service7 months ago in Families
They Trusted Each Other but Still Chose a Consent Order
People kept telling us we were doing it the right way. "Amicable," they'd say, nodding like it was some rare achievement. And I suppose it was. After eighteen years together, fourteen of them married, David and I had somehow managed to come apart without the kind of warfare that other people described. No screaming rows in the kitchen. No solicitor's letters that made my stomach drop when I found them on the mat. We'd sat at the dining room table, the same table where we'd eaten a thousand dinners with the kids, and we'd talked. Calmly. Honestly. With a pot of tea between us.
By Jess Knauf7 months ago in Families
Marriage
How Losing Everything Revealed What We Actually Had THE MORNING WE LOST IT ALL 📉 The phone call came at 7:43 AM on a Wednesday morning while my husband Robert and I were eating breakfast with our two children who were arguing about whose turn it was to use the iPad, and the normalcy of this scene, the cereal bowls and the sibling bickering and the coffee growing cold while I refereed, made what followed feel like it was happening to someone else in a movie I was watching rather than in my actual kitchen in my actual life, because Robert's business partner called to inform him that their construction company was insolvent, that the bank was calling their loans immediately, that their largest client had filed a lawsuit for breach of contract, and that the personal guarantees Robert had signed on the business loans meant that our family was liable for approximately 1.7 million dollars in debt that the company could not pay, and in the approximately four minutes of that phone call our financial life which had been comfortable and secure and built on fifteen years of hard work and careful planning collapsed into a crater so deep that climbing out seemed not just difficult but genuinely impossible 📞😰
By The Curious Writer7 months ago in Families
