Category Archives: Fort Lauderdale Family Law
Litigation Shifts Policies on Paid Leave for Dads
Fathers are—more and more—insisting that they have a right to paid parental leave and demanding it, pointing out that it is arguably discriminatory to offer a certain amount of paid leave to biological mothers but not fathers. By challenging these distinctions legally with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, more and more companies are switching… Read More »
The International Treaty to Streamline Child Support Payments & Enforcement
What happens if one parent who owes money for child support moves abroad? The United States has spent years trying to address this very issue in the form of an international treaty aimed at making it easier to track these parents down. However, its implementation depends upon each U.S. state approving the details by… Read More »
New Harvard Study Indicates That Marriage Can Interfere with Women’s Careers
A new study conducted by Harvard University has some interesting implications for women with strong career goals: high-achieving women aren’t failing to meet career goals because they are opting out of the workforce to have kids (as is sometimes the prevailing notion), but rather because they are placing their husband’s careers before their own…. Read More »
A Baby’s Death at Daycare Leaves Parents Questioning
On November 15th, the New York Times highlighted one mother’s tragic story of her child dying in daycare. After taking paid maternity leave and being denied additional (unpaid) leave–as well as not having the option of quitting her job due to the cost of child care and the potential to lose health care–she ended… Read More »
Providing Same-Sex Couples With Equal Fertility Benefits
Recently, the New York Times looked at the costs some same-sex couples face when trying to conceive; for example, those trying to raise enough funds to afford intrauterine insemination (IUI), which can cost couples tens of thousands of dollars. Insurers often will not cover these treatments for same-sex couples, even plans sometimes do cover… Read More »
Survey Shows Many Children under Five Left To Mobile Devices
A small survey recently conducted found that three-fourths of all children surveyed used tablets, smartphones, or iPods without supervision by the age of four. Although only conducted in one city and based on self-reports from parents, experts still indicate that this points to a trend of electronic devices becoming deeply embedded in childhood experiences…. Read More »
What Is Emancipation Of A Minor? Can It Affect Child Support?
Each state (including Florida) provides for a process by which children can become legally independent of their parents (also known as “emancipation”). When a child is legally designated as independent, it can affect some of the parents’ legal obligations as well, for example, child support payments. Typically, emancipation takes place by a child growing… Read More »
What Is The Marriage Tax “Penalty”?
If you ask most people whether it makes more sense (tax-wise) to be married or single, most would say that married couples get a tax break. However, most of these same people would be shocked to find out that that is conditional; in fact, married couples with two incomes face what some would call… Read More »
Florida Judge Punishes Domestic Violence Victim
Earlier this month, in what is being criticized as a potentially unethical decision, a Seminole County judge (Collins) decided to sentence a domestic violence victim to three days in jail for failing to attend the trial against the father of her son, in spite of subpoena requiring her presence. Collins, once a former prosecutor… Read More »
Pensions and Divorce in Florida
Divorce can be a complicated, long, drawn-out process. It is difficult enough trying to understand the basics of property division without also having to figure out the nitty gritty details of how every source of income will impact your family. That being said, retirement accounts such as 401k plans and pensions are an important… Read More »
