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As if having our lives changed due to this COVID-19 pandemic isn’t enough, many parents who are responsible for child support payments are having a hard time making ends meet and keeping up with their payments. Even parents who are still employed are in many cases making considerably less money today than they were before the stay-at-home orders went into effect and businesses of all types started closing their doors. Not surprisingly, businesses that could remain open started cutting back on their hours of operations and services offered leaving employees still on their payrolls, to work fewer hours and make less money. Worst of all were parents who lost their jobs and are still financially affected by those shutdowns over 2 months later. Many of these have filed for state unemployment and are looking for gainful employment but with the general condition of the economy and the number of people unemployed, the scare number of jobs that have become available are in most cases filled. Spousal support payments have also been affected and regardless of the former spouse’s financial condition this pandemic has left them in, they are still responsible for their court-ordered obligations. According to Heekin Law, P.A.’s lead marital and family law attorney, Hunter Malin, asking your former spouse for a temporary lowering of payments and having that agreement approved by the court is the quickest and easiest way to reduce your financial burden. If that financial relief is not available to an obligated parent or spouse because of non-consent, then your only course of action is to petition the court for a modification based on your new financial condition. In any event, if you do not have the financial resources to make the scheduled payments, pay what you can of partial payments and keep a record as to the dates paid and amounts. You will still be responsible for any missed payments. Because of the unique situation, this COVID-19 pandemic has created, getting a court-ordered modification might take some time but will be effective from the original date your petition was filed not the date the modification was granted. If you need to petition the court for a modification you will need to provide adequate proof, loss of a job, reduction of hours worked, or pay stubs validating your loss of income before a modification will be granted. You might also be asked to provide proof of your active solicitation of employment so that you can demonstrate your continued effort to make your support payments. If granted a modification of child support in Jacksonville Fl, it is likely to be temporary since your employment condition might be temporary as well. In any event, if you have lost your job or financially suffered a loss of income and can’t meet your legal obligations, you need to seek the immediate help of a marital and family law attorney who can advise you on your best course of action.
Our lead marital and family law attorney, Hunter Malin has over 20 years of experience assisting individuals and families involved in divorce settlements, child support, and child custody cases, modifications of existing orders, and paternity suits. Hunter has been working diligently during this unique time providing legal support and representation in family law matters. If you cannot fulfill your child or spousal support obligations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, effecting the financial wellbeing of many individuals do not hesitate to call him at 904-355-7000 for a free, no-obligation consultation. Hunter has the knowledge and experience to assist you in requesting a modification to reduce your financial burden and help you through this financial crisis. Heekin Law, P.A.. Representation customized to fit your legal needs.
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to