Family Law

Practice Highlights

• Litigated complex jurisdictional issues, equitable distribution issues, division of interests in closely held corporations and trusts, child abduction and relocation issues, parenting issues, and modification of alimony
• Mediated settlement agreements in 120+ cases since 2002
• Protected assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of prominent professional athletes and business owners with premarital agreements

Group members include: 

• A former Florida circuit court judge who authored a five-volume family law research library; he is also board certified in marital and family law by the Florida Bar, and certified as a family arbitrator by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
• The liaison to the ABA Family Law Section
• Two Florida Supreme Court certified family law mediators
• A former Florida Bar president

Key Matters

• Drafted postnuptial and premarital agreements for offspring of the owners of a closely held corporate client to facilitate gifts of lifetime interests in family business and trusts
• Represented foreign national in defense of prenuptial agreement
• Secured dismissal, with prejudice, of foreign, out-of-state corporation for lack of personal jurisdiction under long arm statute
• Negotiated terms under which Brazilian national could return, with child, to the United States
• Represented numerous clients in obtaining orders sealing confidential records under Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.420, including:
  • Client employed by the federal government whose employment was classified and in danger of exposure
  • Brazilian national who would have been endangered by the exposure of confidential financial information
  • Client who needed to keep confidential the terms of an agreement regarding prior sexual conduct

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