Family Law Practice Areas

The concept of child custody has been changed. Primary Residential Care and Secondary Residential Care have been replaced with Parenting Plans and Time-Sharing. The Parenting Plan is a document that governs the way the parties relate to one another about the decisions made regarding children, and includes a time-sharing schedule.  The Time-Sharing Schedule specifies the time; including overnights, weekends and holidays that children will spend with each parent. Also included is how often and the method of technologies that the parents will use to communicate with the children. If developed and agreed to by the parents, it must be approved by the Court. If the parents cannot agree, the schedule will be established by the Court.
These are some of the most challenging and difficult aspects of a divorce case. The parents must work through or litigate who the children will live with most of the time; and it can be a terrifying, frustrating and demanding process.
I have endured such a custody fight. I understand what you are going through, what you are feeling, and what you want for you and your children. I have seen the way judges make these decisions. That gives me the ability to structure the right facts, evidence and testimony to give you the best possible chance to prevail in such a legal battle.

Shared Parental Responsibility is the legal presumption in Florida. The Court feels that both parents should be actively involved in their children's lives, education, religious upbringing, health and welfare. The Court will grant Shared Parental Responsibility unless one parent is truly unfit. Otherwise, both parents will work together jointly raising their children.

The Best Interest of the Minor Child is the bottom line standard that the Courts consider in making parenting plan determinations. The Judge has wide leeway in making a decision as to what is in the BEST INTEREST OF THE MINOR CHILDREN. Many parents get caught up in what "they want and need," and forget that the Court only is concerned with what is in the Best Interest of their children.

Additionally, when it comes to Negotiated Settlements, we focus on creative and alternative methods of creating a parenting plan arrangement that is workable, fair and in the Best Interest of the Minor Children.