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173<a href="/Articles/Snapshot-of-collaborative-divorce.shtml">Snapshot of collaborative divorce</a></h2>
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176                    Submitted by <span class="username">Brandon Family</span> on <time pubdate datetime="2020-02-19T09:21:14-05:00">Wed, 02/19/2020 - 09:21</time>        </p>
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180  <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>There is no such thing as an “easy” divorce. How can it be easy to walk away from a person that you once loved or still love, but can no longer be with? You may value your friendship with your soon to be former spouse or, at the very least, still value having a functional relationship with them, especially if children are involved. In any case, do you truly want to destroy any amicable feelings that you both may have for each other, through the slash and dagger of the traditional divorce?</p></div></div></div>
181  <ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/Articles/Snapshot-of-collaborative-divorce.shtml" rel="tag" title="Snapshot of collaborative divorce">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Snapshot of collaborative divorce</span></a></li>
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192                    Submitted by <span class="username">Brandon Family</span> on <time pubdate datetime="2020-02-19T09:17:48-05:00">Wed, 02/19/2020 - 09:17</time>        </p>
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196  <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>On behalf of Mary Greenwood McDermott</p>
197<p>Collaborative divorce is a relatively recent process developed in response to the adversarial experience in traditional divorce.</p>
198<p>Many people approaching divorce are not aware of a modern alternative to the traditional divorce trial in which the judge decides all contested issues for the couple. That alternative is collaborative divorce, a more dignified process in which the divorcing spouses agree to settle their issues through respectful negotiation instead of in contentious litigation.</p></div></div></div>
199  <ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/Articles/Florida-divorce-consider-collaboration-as-an-alternative-to-litigation.shtml" rel="tag" title="Florida divorce: consider collaboration as an alternative to litigation">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about Florida divorce: consider collaboration as an alternative to litigation</span></a></li>
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207                    <h2 class="node__title node-title"><a href="/Articles/Florida-condo-complex-refuses-to-sell-to-unmarried-gay-or-heterosexual-couples.shtml">Florida condo complex refuses to sell to unmarried gay or heterosexual couples</a></h2>
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210                    Submitted by <span class="username">Brandon Family</span> on <time pubdate datetime="2020-02-19T08:24:25-05:00">Wed, 02/19/2020 - 08:24</time>        </p>
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214  <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The upscale condo complex, Casa Di Amici, now limits all sales of units to singles or married couples. Despite outrage that the new restrictions are discriminatory, a condo association lawyer argues the new guidelines are legal.</p>
215<h3>Condo refuses to sell to unmarried gay or heterosexual couples</h3>
216<p>A Florida condominium association won’t let unmarried couples purchase a home — after it released new restrictions this summer that barred couples “living in sin” from owning any property at the upscale complex.</p>
217<p>And, despite public outcry, the new guidelines are legal.</p></div></div></div>
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229                    Submitted by <span class="username">Brandon Family</span> on <time pubdate datetime="2020-02-19T08:22:31-05:00">Wed, 02/19/2020 - 08:22</time>        </p>
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233  <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Our firm recently received a bulletin from Ideal Identification’s Mr. Bob Smedley concerning a change in FBI policy relating to criminal background checks.</p>
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234The FBI has informed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that effective April 15, 2012, it will no longer accept fingerprint cards submissions for any domestic adoption. While the FBI will continue to take “hard card” fingerprint submissions for international adoption applicants, all domestic adoption applicants must submit their fingerprints electronically by live scan submission.</p></div></div></div>
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246                    Submitted by <span class="username">Brandon Family</span> on <time pubdate datetime="2020-02-19T08:20:49-05:00">Wed, 02/19/2020 - 08:20</time>        </p>
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250  <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In Florida, both parents are legally obligated to provide support for their minor child or children and receipt of child support is considered a right of the child not the parents. The purpose of child support is to ensure that the child’s basic needs for food, clothing and shelter are met and, additionally, to allow the child to share in the wealth and good fortune of the parent’s.</p></div></div></div>
251  <ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore first"><a href="/Articles/An-overview-of-child-support-under-Florida-law.shtml" rel="tag" title="An overview of child support under Florida law">Read more<span class="element-invisible"> about An overview of child support under Florida law</span></a></li>
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262                    Submitted by <span class="username">Brandon Family</span> on <time pubdate datetime="2020-02-19T08:16:29-05:00">Wed, 02/19/2020 - 08:16</time>        </p>
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266  <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>My story begins as most stories do, with a desire.</p>
267<p>My desire was to have a family; my dream was a big family, husband and 3 or 4 children. But little did I know that would not be my life. Looking back I see purpose for my singleness in being a co-caregiver for my mother, my mentor, I was able to help care for and be there for her as she had stood beside me. I almost wish that I had started this process before her passing because she would have been a really good Grandmother.</p></div></div></div>
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