Marital instability and divorce are very scary and stressful events in your life. If you are going through them, you already know that beyond emotional wounds, financial insecurity and your financial future may be up in the air. During this volatile time, when your wife or ex-wife may be emotionally charged or financially starved, identity theft is a major risk.

More than likely your wife or ex-wife has much of your personal information including your credit card numbers, social security number, and even access to your bank accounts. She can easily access your money, and potentially your credit if you do not make arrangements for control of your assets.

Going through a divorce can be one of the most stressful situations you have to deal with in life, and if a child is involved, they can often feel like they are caught in the middle or worse. Because they may not fully understand, this unneeded stress can impact their ability to properly function at school. Paying attention to your child's needs by offering consolation and honest explanations is imperative. 

Leave the divorce details out of the home setting. Kenny Leigh & Associates, the largest men only family law attorney Jacksonville FL has to offer, will work with you to ensure your divorce has a minimal impact on your child. Both parents should focus as much attention back on the child. Not only does this give mom and dad something positive to focus on, but it reinforces your love for your child and answers any lingering doubts or questions that may negatively impact your child.

Kenny Leigh & Associates family law attorneys recommend that you tell your child about your divorce before telling anyone else in the community. It's much worse for your child to find out about the divorce from kids at school. Divorce can sometimes be embarrassing for children, so work with your child on how to tell their friends at school. Your child is likely to have tons of questions about what's happening with mom and dad. Instead of trying to explain every detail about why you're getting a divorce, attempt to explain it to your child in a way that reinforces your love for them.

Many people incorrectly believe that once a child support order is established, and that child support is not paid, there is no way out of an arrearage.  This is absolutely not true.  In many instances, a child will change their living circumstances from one parent to the other.  A lot of times, people will not go to a court to change any existing orders. 

This Court may grant to Petitioner/Father temporary emergency custody of the minor child because Petitioner/Father has established the presumption that he is the legal father of the minor child, and a true emergency exists justifying the need for emergency custody. Paternity is conclusively established when both parties sign an acknowledgment of paternity and within sixty days, that acknowledgment is not rescinded by either party. Allison v. Medlock, 983 So. 2d 789 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008). Once the acknowledgment has been signed and the time period to rescind has passed, paternity is presumptively established. Id. Paternity may then only be disestablished where either party can establish fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact. Id.

Issue:  Whether a paternity action can be filed in Florida when the child and the child’s mother reside in another state. Neither the child nor the mother has ever resided in Florida. The putative father resides in Florida.