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The Difficulty of Domestic Violence Return Hearings
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” --Mahatma Ghandi The Economist Magazine, April 11-17, 2015, Page 28, reports . . . That a new study in Behavioral Sciences and the Law finds...
The Importance of Listening
“When you talk you are only repeating what you know; but when you listen, you may learn something new.” --Dalai Lama...
Collaborative Law: The Total is Greater than the Sum of its Parts
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done...
Why Joint Experts Make Sense & Collaborative Law Should Be Considered
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein Marital and Family Law is a unique sub-species of the law. Whereas in criminal...
Standard Of Living Under The Proposed Alimony Changes
"Current Florida law already provides for the adjustment of alimony under the proper circumstances. The law also insures that spouses who have sacrificed their careers to raise a family, do not suffer financial catastrophe upon divorce, and that the lower earning...
Imputed Income: A Concept under the New Alimony Statute
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” - Maimonides The law currently requires parties to a divorce proceeding where support is an issue to utilize their best efforts, given their job skills and...
Changes to Florida’s Alimony Statute
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius The Florida Legislature is currently considering changes to Florida’s alimony statute. Although it is a creature of statute, alimony has a...
Divided Lives
According to writer Parker J. Palmer, a problem human beings may encounter is that of the “Divided Life”. He points out that children live integrated and undivided lives. There is no distinction between what is going on inside of them and what is going on outside....
The One You Feed
One evening, an elderly Cherokee brave told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt,...