Category Archives: Fort Lauderdale Family Law
Cultivating LGBT Adoptions & Foster Parenting
On June 29th, NPR featured a story on the importance of educating families about LGBT child fostering and adoption. Perhaps surprisingly, out of the more than 400,000 U.S. children in foster care, there are a disproportionate number of LGBT kids, in part because it can be difficult to find placement (and thus facilitate eventual… Read More »
Critical Steps to (Financially) Prepare for Divorce
The process of getting divorced can be emotional enough on its own without also having to go through additional stress related to the financial aspects of the process. However, there are some steps that accounting experts suggest doing early on in order to protect yourself and ease your mind when it comes to managing… Read More »
Florida Takes Steps to Facilitate International Adoptions
Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Florida just took huge steps in helping facilitate international adoptions by jump starting a program to help provide families with medical care before and after they adopt a child, with a focus on providing very specific care for children who are adopted from outside the United States. This will… Read More »
Editorial: Marriage Equality Should Apply To Child Custody
An editorial published on June 28th highlights the challenges that many same-sex couples continue to face when it comes to child custody and adoption, in spite of last year’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality. Specifically, it draws attention to the blatant discrimination that married same-sex couples who have a child by… Read More »
The Connection between Mass Killings and Domestic Violence
On June 15th, the New York Times featured an interesting article on the connection between mass killings and domestic violence, specifically addressing the severe tragedy that Florida recently experienced in June when a gunman massacred many innocent individuals at a nightclub in Orlando. As discussed in the article, the gunman had a history of… Read More »
How Social Media Is Affecting Divorce, Child Custody, and Other Family Law Issues
While most of us have become reliant on modern technology, cell phones, and all the conveniences that come with them—texting, social media, etc.—it is important to note that there is another side to using social media, especially if you are considering obtaining or are already involved in a divorce. More specifically, emails, text messages,… Read More »
A Look at Florida’s LGBT Protections
After the shooting at the nightclub in Orlando in June, some LGBT citizens (rightfully so) questioned whether the legal culture in the state of Florida perhaps implied that affording LGBT individuals fewer rights than others was an acceptable practice. For example, Florida still does not provide the LGBT community with protection from discrimination in… Read More »
How Do Guardianships In Non-Child Custody Cases Work?
Many have heard of guardianship in the child custody context: A guardian ad litem represents the best interests of a child involved in a child custody dispute. Some have likened them to attorneys representing these children. However, guardians are also established to represent and protect individuals who are in need of providing power of… Read More »
For Many Same-Sex Couples, Adoption Is Still More Difficult
Many same-sex couples have been hoping to adopt children for years, and recent decisions about the legality of same-sex marriage in the United States have left some hopeful. However, reports of adoption being especially difficult for same-sex couples have been circulating, indicating that discrimination in the field of adoption is, unfortunately, still alive and… Read More »
New Study Highlights Similarities in Child Outcomes between Same-Sex and Different-Sex Parents
A new study just released dispels the age-old myth that same-sex couples cannot be good parents by using scientifically-sound principles to break apart some discriminatory theories. Specifically, researchers from top institutions found absolutely no differences with same-sex couples when it came to partner relationships, a child’s emotional and overall health, or parent-child relationships, in… Read More »
