We are a full-service divorce and family law firm that takes pride in providing professional services to individuals and families with respect to all their legal needs. We always strive to protect your rights with professional excellence.
Your Boca Raton family lawyer, Jessica Mishali, has experience in representing individuals with respect to divorce, child custody litigation, the division of marital property, alimony and child support. We are also highly experienced in enforcing final judgments and orders and in modifying alimony child support and custody. We understand that the nature of these proceedings are filled with frustration and enormous financial and emotional challenges. We are careful to structure our approach to the needs of each client and will never use a “cookie cutter” approach.
We are highly experienced and effective negotiators and always attempt to mediate our cases whenever possible. However, if a case cannot be settled, we are also highly experienced litigators and have extensive trial experience.
Florida law requires the equitable division of marital property and marital debts in a dissolution of marriage action (divorce). Under the concept of equitable distribution, title to the property no longer matters. Marital property means that everything you acquire during the marriage, other than gifts or inheritance, is marital property. Likewise, debts or liabilities acquired during the marriage by either spouse are considered marital debts. The starting point, for the court, is that marital assets and marital debts are split equally. There are some limited exceptions whereby the court can make an unequal distribution. Assets brought into the marriage are non-marital and can usually be kept as separate property upon divorce.
