You may look forward to sharing a house with your significant other. However, if you want to build a long-term relationship with an unmarried partner, you should consider whether your partner will end up with your home if you should die or if a court will name someone...
Unmarried Couples
3 ways to establish paternity in Florida
When you have a baby with someone in Florida and the two of you are not in a marriage, you need to take extra steps if you wish to maintain rights over your son or daughter. While establishing paternity helps give you legal rights over your child and allows you to ask...
Unmarried couples and the U.S. Constitution
Unmarried couples in Florida face many obstacles that married couples do not have to contend with. Since Florida abolished the rights to a common law marriage many years ago, unmarried couples do not have many of the legal rights that married couples in the state...
What are important documents for unmarried couples?
If you hope your relationship with your unmarried partner will last for a long time, perhaps even for the rest of your life, you should take steps to fortify your union. Some unmarried partners end up fighting over different financial and personal issues. A breakup...
How may an agreement for unmarried couples preserve my assets?
Since 2016, unmarried couples in Florida may lawfully live together without incurring penalties. The Sunshine State, however, does not recognize common-law marriages. The Florida court system may not provide you and your significant other with the same asset...
Challenges you face in a committed but unmarried relationship
If you find yourself in a long-term relationship with an unmarried partner in Florida, you face many unique challenges when it comes to building equity in a home or keeping finances separate. It is important to understand your situation from a legal perspective. You...
Will I have protection if I have a common law marriage?
A common law marriage is where you and your partner live together as a married couple for a set number of years. The problem is Florida does not recognize common law marriage, so there are no protections for you under this type of law. NPR explains in a state where...
What are your custody rights as an unmarried dad?
If you are an unmarried Florida father, you may feel that you have little, if any, chance of gaining custody of your children. Fortunately, such is not necessarily the case. FindLaw explains that Florida does not discriminate between parents, married or unmarried. In...
Making paternity work without marriage
At the Law Offices of , we deal with nearly all issues within the general category of Florida family law. You might associate this field with marriage and divorce, but unmarried couples, particularly parents, often need to...
Establishing paternity in Florida
Children who are born to an unwed mother in Florida do not have a father who is legally recognized. In these situations paternity, or legal fatherhood, should be established for a number of reasons that are beneficial to both the child and the dad.According to TX...