Property ownership is not always direct. While many traditional homeowners take out a mortgage and eventually buy their homes, there are many alternative models as well. Homeowner associations and condominiums provide individual ownership but with group commitments. A...
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Resolving a dispute with your condominium association
Florida has embraced the condominium lifestyle and all the perks that come with it. According to U.S. News, 20 percent of all Americans live in housing communities.If you live in a housing community, you know that sometimes residents and the condominium board don't...
Divorce might be difficult for natural born planners
The divorce process is one that can impact every aspect of your life. Not only are you going to have to divide up assets, you also have to decide what is going to happen with your children. All of this can lead to significant emotional trouble, as well as financial...
Think about the fate of the marital home in a divorce
Your marital home is likely one of the biggest, if not the biggest, assets that you have to deal with. When you are going through a divorce, the fate of that home is one of the most important things that you will have to decide. You might not realize it now, but you...
Tips for modifying your child support payments
You want to modify your child support payments. It's not that you don't want to pay, it's just that the amount you were ordered to pay in the divorce no longer fits your life.Maybe you lost a big contract. Perhaps your business hasn't been doing well. Some of your...
Practices require special considerations during a divorce
Many challenges exist when you are trying to get a divorce. In the case of professionals who are self-employed, such as doctors who have their own practice, making a plan to deal with the practice must be made a priority. The last thing that you need is to lose your...
Don’t bypass the need for a prenuptial agreement
There is something very concerning about the state of many high asset marriages these days. This is the fact that many of these marriages don't have a prenuptial agreement in place. Some people might not have realized that they would need this agreement one day. What...
Political unrest divides families and marriages
One of Florida 's top "power couples" had everything that a lot of people dream about: health, personal recognition and plenty of material wealth -- but their marriage came to a grinding halt over their deeply held (and deeply opposing) political views.The wife, a...
Should I have a forensic accountant on my divorce team?
Divorce in legal terms is mainly about the division of assets, and although it maybe be simple in theory, the reality of a high asset divorce with complex financial portfolios is anything but straightforward.Because of this complexity, small aspects of wording in...
Hiding funds isn’t unusual in divorce
Sometimes, divorcing spouses play a type of financial shell game with their finances -- they claim ownership of certain funds and assets when it benefits them and then disavow that same ownership when it's inconvenient for their divorce.That's particularly true among...


