Marital & Family Law

Blending the Family: How the Stepparent Adoption Process Works in Florida

Having a stepparent adopt a child can be a very emotional and exciting time for your family. It often signifies a complete blending of a new member with all of the family’s members. Stepparent adoption is also a good idea...
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3 Reasons You May Need to Modify a Family Law Judgment

In family law cases such as establishing paternity, modifications, or divorce, you or the judge end up making decisions that will significantly affect you and your loved ones for years to come. In many situations, those decisions cannot be created...
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3 Tips for Healthy Co-parenting Following Divorce

Divorcing couples without children can go their separate ways once the divorce is finalized. However, for divorcing parents, you and your former spouse are entering a new stage in life. Now, you will have to learn how to work together...
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4 Lies You Believe About Prenups

Deciding whether to get a prenup can be a difficult decision for many couples, and for lots of them, it can cause tension in the relationship.  Before you choose to either create a prenuptial agreement or get married without one,...
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4 Emotions You Can Expect to Feel During Your Divorce

Let’s face it: Divorce is an emotional roller coaster. No matter how prepared you think you are, you will probably find that during your divorce process, you will face feelings you were not expecting to feel. At McKINNON LEGAL, we...
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The Talk: Tips for Communicating with Your Kids About Divorce

One of the most difficult parts of a divorce is breaking the news to your kids. No matter how confident you are that this is the right decision, making your child see that can be a challenge. Even the most...
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Divorce & Business Assets

Getting a divorce is an emotional process. It has an impact on every aspect of your daily life and can make you feel like there’s a giant question mark on your routines, your living situation, your ability to be with...
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Enforcing Child Support During a Pandemic

Today we are living in a world that just a month or two ago, most of us never would have imagined. As we face our new reality, we rush to put systems in place that will allow us a semblance...
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Three Considerations for Same-Sex Couples Getting Divorced in Florida

Same-sex couples face unique legal challenges in their relationships, including when they decide to get divorced. At McKINNON LEGAL, we represent clients in a variety of family law matters, including same-sex divorces. In most ways, same-sex divorces happen in just...
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IVF and Paternity Obligation Options

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is a process through which an egg and a sperm are combined outside of the body and transferred to the uterus after fertilization occurs. The process can use a donor egg and sperm, biological material from the...
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