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Divorce is defined in the State of Florida as a legal action filed to end a marriage by a married person or persons. Legally, when it comes to divorce, Florida is known as a “no-fault” state, which means that the court does not need to assign “fault” to either party in a divorce action. Instead, divorce can be sought simply because the marriage is irretrievably broken, and as such, the spouses are not expected to reconcile their differences. This provision of the law also will not allow one spouse from preventing the other spouse from seeking a divorce. A common misconception is that adultery can be used as evidence for a divorce decree to be granted and that the cheating spouse is not entitled to a fair division of assets. Again the “no-fault” provision of the law does not take behavior such as cheating into play when determining the terms of a final divorce settlement except in the event that the cheating spouse used marital assets to support the extra-marital affair. If marital assets where used, then the non-cheating spouse may be entitled to recover some of the funds used. The non-cheating spouse may also be responsible for paying child support, and or alimony, even to a cheating spouse. These issues will all be considered by the court, but in accordance with the State of Florida’s “equitable distribution statute”, both parties are entitled to their fair share of the marital assets and debt. Additionally, if you are seeking a divorce in the State of Florida, at least one of the spouses must have been a Florida resident for at least six months prior to filing for divorce. Divorce without children can still be a complicated affair and should not be handled without the advice of an experienced family law attorney. Although this process may, in fact, seem simple, a divorce attorney can make sure that none of the legal technicalities are overlooked when seeking to dissolve a marriage and that you understand all of the legal implications involved in your specific case. Protecting your interest and those of any children is your attorney’s primary mandate. Family law attorneys can simply advise a client seeking a divorce on the necessary procedures for dissolving their marriage. Getting divorced is still a difficult procedure to endure even if both parties are agreed as to the terms and divisions of assets they desire.
Emotionally, most divorcing couples need some support to navigate the legal waters of divorce court and that is where an experienced divorce and family law attorney can help. Heekin Law, P.A., a legal firm practicing marital and family law for over 20 years has in its lead family law attorney, Hunter Malin, a man dedicated to helping divorcing spouses through the complex world of divorce. Whether you are seeking a contested or uncontested divorce, facing a dispute over children, need to modify an existing divorce settlement, have a paternity issue or any other legal matter for a family law court to consider, Hunter recognizes how much is at stake and is committed to protecting your legal rights. Family law matters are not only challenging but also emotionally draining on a family, especially when children of any age are involved. Hunter is an expert at identifying all of the complexities a divorcing couple might face, sympathetic to parties affected by seeking a divorce settlement and committed to helping individuals identify and reach their goals. Sometimes even reasonable solutions seem difficult to achieve but for an aggressive and experienced attorney committed to finding a solution, that task can be easily accomplished. Give Hunter Malin a call for a free initial consultation at 904-355-7000. We are there to listen to your story and issues and present you with different options to achieve your desired goals and best chances for a successful and durable outcome.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
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