Written by Whitney R. Lonker, Wood, Atter & Wolf, P.A. wlonker@woodatter.com Divorce affects everyone. From the parties to their extended family and even their friends. But divorce affects children differently from adults and children experience the pain of divorce differently at different ages. Here is a good article on what…
Written by Whitney R. Lonker, Wood, Atter & Wolf, P.A. wlonker@woodatter.com Family law in Florida is probably the most personal of all areas of law in that we, as practitioners, delve into the deepest secrets of families in order to fight our case or to settle an issue. Many times…
Written By: Lenorae C. Atter, Florida Family Law Attorney latter@woodatter.com In Jacksonville, Florida, as a family law and divorce lawyer, I represent a number of individuals who have been or are in the military. Military family law differs in that many different amounts of income are factored in for purposes…
Written by Whitney R. Lonker, Wood, Atter & Wolf, P.A. wlonker@woodatter.com The first thing I tell my clients when they come to me with an initial divorce is that in divorce, nobody wins. I mean, in the end, the marriage is broken, property is divided and time with the children…
Written by Whitney R. Lonker, Wood, Atter & Wolf, P.A. wlonker@woodatter.com Well, you’ve divided up your property, split the bank accounts, decided child custody or time-sharing and on the amout of child support to be paid but who gets the family dog or pet? Oftentimes this big little life is…
Written By: Lenorae Atter, Florida Family Law Attorney latter@woodatter.com Going through a divorce in Jacksonville, Florida or its surrounding areas can raise questions involving visitation, child support, alimony, etc. However, what about grandparents and the impact of divorce on them? In Florida, grandparents are not given a statutory right or…
In Jacksonville, Florida family law, I deal with cases involving children, divorces, support, visitation and custody, and as d a person interested in my work, I find different information helpful. What is most interesting, however, is that there are so many different statistics we can view, pieces we can read…
On Father’s Day weekend, Governor Sanford was not celebrating with his son, but with his mistress. In Florida divorces, while we recognize adultery as having an impact, we do still recognize “no fault divorce”. However, if Florida allows the affair to be acknowledged monetarily what about the consequences with children…
Florida’s visitation is now timesharing and residential parent is now majority timesharing parent. As a Florida family law attorney I have focused on the parents and children going through this change, but it was brought to my attention that change in visitation and custodial parents is actually having an impact…
Getting an annulment in Jacksonville, Florida is possible if the marriage is void or voidable. A void marriage is one that is not legal, from the very beginning. For instance, if you are still married to someone else, then your new marriage is void. However, what happens when the “void”…