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Understanding the New Tax Landscape Florida families preparing for a divorce or modification in 2025 may experience shifts in how courts evaluate financial obligations. Although Florida does not impose a state income tax, federal tax updates can influence how net income is assessed. These adjustments may affect both alimony and child suppo...
The Realities of Rising Child Care Expenses Raising children is expensive—and for many divorced or separated parents in Florida, child care costs represents one of the largest ongoing costs. Daycare, after-school programs, and summer camps can cost thousands of dollars each year. When these expenses increase or decrease substantially, they...
Legal Remedies for Those Unable to Pay Child Support In Florida, parents are responsible for meeting their children's financial needs. But the Child Support in Florida knows that things can change. Events such as losing a job, getting sick, or being unable to work can make it hard for a parent to pay support payments. When this occurs, Flori...
Penalties for Non-Payment of Child Support Unpaid Child Support in Florida can lead to significant problems. If you miss a payment, the court will send you a notice of delinquency. This notice indicates that the court is now enforcing the support order. If parents ignore this notice, they may face even more severe consequences. Florida ch...
Key Highlights In Florida, both parents are required to provide financial support for their children. Child support in Florida follow the "Income Shares Model." This examines what parents earn and what the child needs. If a parent does not pay child support, there can be serious consequences. These may include having wages garnishe...
Legal Framework for Special Needs Child Support Empower yourself by understanding the laws about child support for a child with special needs. This means knowing both federal and state rules. Federal law sets a basic standard, but Florida has rules that show how child support is figured out and enforced. This knowledge will give you the conf...
Key Highlights Understanding Florida child support guidelines is important; it empowers parents of special needs children. This knowledge gives them the confidence to navigate the legal system and child support attorney for their children's rights. Child support orders for special needs children are not one-size-fits-all. They are tai...
At Gisando Law in Palm Beach, FL, we understand that marriage over divorce can bring significant financial challenges for both spouses, especially when it comes to issues of alimony and child support. In many divorce cases, these two forms of financial support intersect, leading to questions about how they are calculated and how they impact e...
Child support is a crucial aspect of ensuring the well-being of children whose parents are no longer together. In Florida, like in many other states, child support is legally mandated to provide financial assistance for the upbringing of the child. However, there are instances where child support payments may come to a halt, leaving both cust...
Yes, if you have been ordered to pay child support, you cannot waive that responsibility. Even if you have no visitation rights, you must still pay your ordered child support. In Florida, child support and visitation rights are two separate issues, one not depending on the other. In fact, if you don’t have visitation rights and are hoping t...
The simple answer to the question What is the difference between alimony and child support is that alimony is a payment made from one spouse to the other for various issues involving support or deserved monetary award. In comparison, child support is a payment from one spouse to the other to help pay for the care of a couple’s minor childre...
A bonus is an amount of money paid to an employee over and above their regular paycheck. In most instances, a bonus occurs once a year, often at the end of the year though there are times when a bonus is paid more often. Sometimes the bonus is paid simply because the employee has completed a given amount of time with their organization, and a...
Due to the COVID pandemic, working from home and virtual learning has now been in effect for many months and, in some areas, is still an everyday occurrence. In fact, some soothsayers are predicting that this change in the way we live is becoming the new norm. In many instances, schools and businesses are finding it financially beneficial to ...
Going through a dissolution of marriage (divorce) in Florida when there are minor children, that is children under the age of l8 or who cannot take care of themselves, requires the awarding of child support. To calculate which parent will be the receiver and which parent the giver, and how much monthly payment will be ordered, Florida Family ...
Essentially, 50/50 equal time sharing and paying child support have little to do with each other except that both involve a couple being the legal parents, either by birth or adoption, of a minor child. Taking a closer look at both 50/50 equal time sharing and paying child support the following is important to note: Equal time sharing: In F...
Unfortunately, there is no time frame allotted for getting child support. While the party desiring child support may feel it is an emergency, the legal system has its specified procedures which must be followed before adjudication for child support will be finalized by a judge. Taking a look at the procedures needed to obtain child support wi...
The title, “Domestication of a Foreign Order”, implies the order needing domestication is from outside the United States. While this is true in some instances, the majority of orders in this category result from moving to another state outside the state where the order was adjudicated. We live in a mobile society. Many people move from...
Child support is mandatory in the state of Florida. It doesn’t matter if the parents of a minor child ever married or even lived together. “In the best interest of the child” is the standard for the Florida Statutes regarding the care and nurturing of minor children, and child support is an important part of being able to maintain that ...
As each state has their own set of Family Law guidelines (statutes), for the purposes of this blog, guidelines for the state of Florida Child Support Laws, which include retroactive situations, will be used. In Florida Family law, the term “in the best interest of the child” is used frequently and in a sense becomes the goal or mission of...
Parents are legally duty-bound to provide support for their children and it is considered the right of the child to be fed, clothed, and safely cared for in a nurturing environment. While this supportive care is not always a reality, when there is a divorce or dispute with children involved, the rationale of child support is to make sure that...
