If you are a divorced parent, a major change in your life may signal the need for child custody agreement modification. Florida statutes have precise guidelines for agreement modifications, many of which affect child support or custody arrangements. Will the court...
Beverly L . Brennan
Beverly L. Brennan Attorney & Counsellor at Law Naples Florida
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5 areas you must cover when creating your parenting plan
Parents who decide to split must create a parenting plan to show how they will go about raising their children in a post-divorce world. If you and your spouse or partner are members of this group, the court will expect your plan to contain specifics. Every parenting...
How to make nesting work for your post-divorce family
Gone are the days when divorcing parents had few options for sharing custody of the kids. Increasingly, newly single mothers and fathers are looking for innovative ways to provide stability for their children after divorce. Nesting, sometimes called birdnesting, is...
4 important elements you must include in a parenting plan
In the state of Florida, all cases involving responsibility for the care of children require parenting plans. The court has certain requirements. Here are four important elements to include when drafting your plan. 1. Sharing of rights and responsibilities Explain...
Why do fathers lose child custody?
Contrary to popular belief, full custody isn't automatically awarded to women in divorce cases. In fact, many fathers in Florida have received full custody after filing for divorce from their spouse. However, certain actions and behaviors can cause fathers to lose...
What to do when your child wants to live with their other parent
It took several months, but you finally won the custody battle against your former spouse. Now you're a single parent in Florida trying to juggle raising a child and holding down a full-time job at the same time. Things seem to be going fairly well until the day that...
If parents can’t agree, the court determines child custody
There are a lot of good reasons for a Florida couple who are taking the steps necessary to dissolve their marriage to come to an agreement on specific terms such as property division and child custody and support. This may seem counter-intuitive since the inability to...
How joint custody might influence a child support order
If you share custody of your children with your former spouse or partner, it may impact the amount of child support that you owe. In the event that you receive child support, it may impact how much the child's other parent pays you each month. Let's take a look at the...
Behaviors for parents to avoid when getting divorced
Parents going through a separation in Florida may fear losing a child custody battle, but there are behaviors that parents can avoid to help mitigate the risk. Generally speaking, if parents were both in their child’s life up to the time of separation, and provided...
How to make the divorce process as pleasant as possible
People don't typically think about the words "happy" and "divorce" together. However, while divorce is never the goal when a couple enters into wedlock, there are times when ending a marriage is inevitable. There are steps that couples in Florida can take that will...
