Family Law and Dependency Issues by Jose Melendez: secondary sources

Provides techniques, law, and forms to improve your effectiveness and efficiency in everything from client preparation through entry of evidence to closing argument.

Contains the laws, rules and forms associated with the practice of family law in Florida.

Topics include:

Proceedings relating to children
Dissolution of marriage, support, and custody
Adoption
Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
Social and economic assistance
Adult protective services
Marriage and domestic violence
Determination of parentage
Disability of nonage of minors removed
Guardianship
Conservatorship
Temporary custody of minor children by extended family
Grandparental visitation rights
Family visitation network

Topics Include:

Formation of marriage
Marital contracts
Dissolution of marriage
Alimony and child support
Paternity
Adoption
Child custody
Domestic violence
Collaborative divorce

This publication also examines issues such as:

Annulments and premarital agreements
Litigating contested divorces on fault and no-fault grounds
Privacy issues stemming from discovery
Separation and temporary relief
Treatment of family photographs and football tickets as marital property to be divided
Non-marital QDROs
Withdrawal and windup
Ethics and client relations
Temporary relief
Discovery
Separation agreements
Tax matters
Post-litigation work