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The economic crunch has spared no entity from financial stress. Like many individuals, businesses in Florida are also forced to consider filing for bankruptcy protection from mounting debt owed to their creditors. Nationwide statistics show that 57,788 business filed for bankruptcy last year. Although these figures represent both a decline in number of filings from 2011 and the lowest rate…
What is a Quiet Title Action? The area of real estate law contains many legal terms and, unless you are a Tampa real estate lawyer or real estate broker, you may not understand certain language used. A quiet title action is possibly one of these unfamiliar terms, but is definitely worth taking the time to understand. According to Cornell University…
When you consider getting a divorce, one of the first aspects of divorce to discuss with your Tampa family law attorney is divorce grounds. In some states, you have the option of a fault-based divorce where you must prove that the other spouse engaged in adultery, deserted you for a substantial time or did something that destroyed the relationship. However,…
An essential first step in starting any business is to evaluate the various types of business entities. An S corporation is one type of business entity you may want to consider when discussing your business goals with a Tampa business attorney. An S corporation derives its name from Subchapter S of the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) Code and provides some…
Insurance companies are supposed to help you recover from damages you suffered in an auto accident. Unfortunately, sometimes the insurance company itself becomes the source of damages. Under the Florida law commonly called the Insurance Bad Faith Statute, an individual can file suit against an insurance company if he or she suffers damages due to certain actions of the insurer,…
Everyone knows what a will is, although statistics show that nearly half of Americans do not have one. We are all too busy dealing with our lives to think about will happen when they are over. Everyone, however, can benefit from an understanding of the basic concepts of estate planning. With that in mind, following are some terms you should…
A revocable living trust is an estate planning tool that can help accomplish certain goals when used in the right circumstances. Like a regular will, a living trust helps you control what happens to your assets when you die. However, unlike a regular will, a living trust goes into effect — as you might guess from its name — while…
The Florida Department of Revenue wants to make it easy for divorced parents to pay their child support obligations. They probably presume that the easier they make it to pay, the less effort the Department must expend to ensure that children get their due. To that end, they now offer online payment by credit card or electronic check; payment by…
Issues involving children are perhaps the most emotionally-charged and passionately-argued in a divorce settlement. But when it comes to figuring child support, you can check your feelings at the door. Child support goes strictly by the numbers. (Compare that to alimony, which is almost entirely at the discretion of the court and considers all sorts of personal factors, including whether…
Nobody likes an ugly divorce. Not the spouses, not their children, not their friends and families — not even their attorneys, whose goal is to get the parties to agree. Unless you are starring in a reality TV show, constant conflict and continuous drama are not the keys to a successful outcome. To avoid all the ugliness, more amicable approaches…