http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com General legal information furnished as a service of Fort Lauderdale / West Palm Beach family law attorney Janet Langjahr Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:00:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One area of the law where states differ dramatically is in child support enforcement. An Indiana man accumulated $120,000 in child support arrearages. That’s a felony in Indiana, for which he was charged with three counts. That man was sentenced to nine (9) years in prison for non-payment of child support. To be followed ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/16/in-dont-fall-behind-in-paying-your-child-support/ Three Florida children were caught a week ago in the alleged planning stages of a school shooting incident such as at Columbine. The three thirteen year olds were reportedly arrested yesterday for conspiracy to commit murder, a felony. The plot was uncovered through electronics: text messages, webpages, etc. According to her ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/15/another-columbine-averted-in-daytona-beach-florida/ More marriage and divorce statistics. According to the Pew Forum, among US residents, of all religions, followers of Hindu are the most likely to be married and the least likely to be divorced. However, the sampling of Hindus was the smallest, so that was where the greatest margin of error existed. Next least ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/14/likelihood-of-divorce-among-us-residents-based-on-religious-affiliation/ UK attorneys are looking slightly into the future to predict that evidence collected from social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace will be admitted in divorce cases. Absolutely. Just as happened with e-mails and online chats before social networking sites sprang up. The value of the type of evidence likely to ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/13/facebook-as-evidence-in-divorce-coming-soon-predict-uk-attorneys/ The place is Mississippi. A local man, a judge and city attorney, reportedly faces contempt of court for failing to pay past due child support of $1,500. The man contends that he can’t afford to pay it and that it is an unreasonably high amount of child support, more suited to a ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/12/ms-judge-faces-contempt-of-court-over-non-payment-of-child-support/ According to the Pentagon, only 3.3% of military couples divorce. The military attribute this to large amounts of support that the military provides to military couples. Some find the numbers surprising considering the currently prolonged, stressful separations during deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Others find the numbers misleading in that they ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/11/military-divorce-rate-steady-overall-but-military-womens-divorce-rate-high-and-rising/ No more is it true that “where there’s a will, there’s a way”. No need. At least in India. Now, if an Indian living abroad wants easier options, he’s got them. A Delhi court has agreed to allow a New Jersey resident to appear at his divorce hearing(s) via video ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/10/india-makes-divorce-court-more-convenient/ Nothing else has stamped out domestic violence yet. One relatively recent, creative approach established in Massachusetts: educational theater. Theater with a message. Plays depicting different types of domestic abuse (sexual, violent, verbal, etc.) - and targeting different audiences (civilian vs. military, adults vs. children, etc.). The rationale is that an engaging story ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/09/domestic-violence-fought-with-educational-theater/ The Florida Department of Children and Families receives about 1,000 reports of abuse per month in Lee County that must be investigated. Investigations must begin within twenty-four hours, three if a child is believed to be in imminent danger. An investigation takes at least 4 hours of interviews with the child, the ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/09/florida-youngster-killed-despite-numerous-reports-of-abuse/ Once upon a time, non-parents might have visitation or even custody rights, most commonly grandparents. Then the US Supreme Court ruled that such third party rights trampled the rights of parents, which should be superior - provided the parents are fit parents. Since then, some states have tried fashioning constitutional statutes granting ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/08/utah-reopens-legislative-door-to-custody-or-visitation-rights-for-unrelated-persons/ In many divorce cases, the most thorny property division question is: what to do with the marital home? That is especially likely in a depressed real estate market like the current one. One commonly agreed to option is for the spouse who wants to remain in the house to refinance ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/08/in-many-divorce-cases-the-most-thorny-property-division-question-is-what-to-do-with-the-marital-home-that-is-especially-likely-in-a-depressed-real-estate-market-like-the-current-oneone-commonly-agreed/ A millionaire and his wife are pitted against each other in an ongoing custody battle … over their dog. The “father”, who has no children, has spent over $60,000 to win custody of the pooch. At first, the couple engaged in roughly equal timesharing, by agreement. Then the “mother” accused the “father” of ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/07/new-yorker-appeals-ruling-permitting-ex-to-move-out-of-state-with-pet-of-the-marriage/ When children are taken into foster care due to alleged abandonment, abuse or neglect, it sets in motion a series of events, including various hearings in juvenile dependency court. Juvenile dependency court is unlike any other court. Many of the families of removed children are indigent. Parents attorneys’ and children’s attorneys ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/03/01/ca-juvenile-dependency-courts-too-many-cases-too-little-time/ A father has not seen his son for more than a year. The boy’s mother took the boy on a vacation to India. And never returned. India is not a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. And India does not view child abduction as a ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/02/25/india-takes-no-action-in-abduction-of-american-child-to-india/ About half of American marriages end in divorce. But they tend to last a bit longer today (8 years) than in the past (7 years). Teen marriages, the most susceptible to failure, have declined. Most couples are tending to marry a bit later in life. About two-thirds of all American breakups are initiated by ... http://www.fladivorcelawblog.com/2008/02/21/state-of-our-marital-unions/