Divorce Advice – Chris LaFrance Tampa Divorce Lawyer

Divorce Advice – Chris LaFrance Tampa Divorce Lawyer

We understand how overwhelming and scary divorcing your spouse can feel. It’s hard to think clearly and make good decisions during a highly charged emotional time. Every time I have an alimony modification or custody modification client hire me, I hear, “Looking back I wished I had done things differently.” It’s only once they move past the emotional time they often see where the results of the stress and how it affected their decision-making process and ultimately, hurt them in the long run.

Chris Lafrance Tampa Divorce Lawyer is experienced and can share some important tips with you:

1. Hire the right divorce attorney – You should feel comfortable speaking your divorce lawyer. Further, you should feel confident that they are qualified to understand your needs and help you get the outcome you desire.

2. Don’t move out too fast.

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LaFrance Law – Divorce 101

This is LaFrance Law’s Divorce 101 blog. An action for divorce is commenced by filing a Petition For Dissolution of Marriage with the court clerk. The Petition will include statements to verify Florida has jurisdiction to dissolve the marriage and state the grounds for the divorce (typically, the marriage is irretrievably broken). It will also include various requests for relief depending upon their applicability, such as requests that the court determine the issues relating to the children, including time-sharing and child support, determine marital and non-marital assets and debts, divide the marital assets and debts and possibly request alimony or spousal support.

In addition to the Petition, other initial documents must be prepared and filed, including, if children are involved, a Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act affidavit that verifies the Florida court has jurisdiction to decide the issues that relate to the children.

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Divorce Advice – Division of Property How Will We Divide Our Property

LaFrance Law’s Divorce Advice on the division of property. Many clients wonder how we will get to the bottom of determining what property the court will require a couple to divide. This may especially be true if one spouse manages all of the financial matters for a family or where one spouse is secretive about certain bills, accounts or other property. A spouse involved in a divorce is required to give the court information about his or her assets and debts and income and expenses in a document called a financial affidavit unless the divorce is considered a simplified dissolution of marriage under Florida laws. In reality, however, a spouse will complete a financial affidavit in nearly all divorce cases. Courts have punished a spouse for failing to be honest about his or her financial affairs. In fact, there is no time limit for looking for relief from a judgment that was based upon fraudulent financial affidavits in family law cases assuming you did not know about the assets or the fraud at the time of the judgment. A spouse is responsible for updating a financial affidavit during a case where there is a material change in financial status.