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How To Lower Your Alimony Payments:
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• 03/23/08 - Family Law Section of the Florida Bar - useful links for your research.

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Florida Rules of Civil Procedure & Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure

Local court rules

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What Are Considerations For Modification of Alimony?

Case cites provided courtesy of Loislaw:

• Chastain v. Chastain, 73 So.2d 66 (Fla. 1954)
• Withers v. Withers, 390 So.2d 453 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980)
• Servies v. Servies, 524 So.2d 678 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988)
• Austin v. Fernandez, 898 So. 2d 118 (Fla. 3d D.C.A. 2005).
• Vega v. Swait, 4D07-932 (Fla.App. 4 Dist. 8-1-2007)
• Selembo v. Selembo, 591 So. 2d 1112 (Fla. 2d D.C.A. 1992)
• Rosen v. Rosen, 528 So. 2d 42 (Fla. 3d D.C.A. 1988)
• Rosen v. Rosen, 696 So. 2d 697 (Fla. 1997)
• Pimm v. Pimm, 601 So. 2d 534 (Fla. 1992)
• Thomas v. Thomas, 589 So. 2d 944 (Fla. 1st D.C.A. 1991)
• Brown v. Cannady-Brown, 954 So.2d 1206 (Fla.App. 4 Dist. 2007)

Other Useful Strategies

• Kaufman v. Kaufman, 541 So. 2d 743 (Fla. 3d D.C.A. 1989)
• Hillier v. Iglesias 901 So.2d 947 (Fla.App. 4 Dist. 2005)
• Szuri v. Szuri, 759 So. 2d 709 (Fla. 3d D.C.A. 2000)
• Shafer v. Shafer, 777 So. 2d 1090 (Fla. 2d D.C.A. 2001)
• Andrews v. Andrews, 409 So. 2d 1135 (Fla. 2d D.C.A. 1982)
• Tarkow v. Tarkow, 805 So. 2d 854 (Fla. 2d D.C.A. 2001)
• Schwab v. Schwab, 864 So. 2d 82 (Fla. 1st D.C.A. 2003)
• Hurtado v. Hurtado, 407 So. 2d 627 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981)
• Ruhnau v. Ruhnau, 299 So. 2d 61 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974)

Appendix

Referenced Links:

• Abolish Alimony.org - excellent source of court-filed documents that can be used to help you prepare your documents.

• Abolish "Lifetime" Alimony -  Subscribe in a reader to this blog.

• Alliance For Freedom From Alimony, Inc. - another good source of court-filed documents that can be used to help you prepare your documents.

• Citizens For Liberty And Privacy

• Consumer Credit Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. s. 1673

• Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)

• Florida Bar Association

• Florida Courts Self-help, state forms

• Florida State Courts

• LectLaw.com

• LexisONE – free legal caselaw searches

• Local court rules (if there are any)
• Panama Publishing, Inc.
• Westlaw
   

Resources:

Florida Legal Services: Non-profit group offering information on legal services for low and moderate income Floridians.
 

Divorce Laws (Statutes) of all 50 states
 

Forum Resources

• Alliance for Freedom From Alimony, Inc.

• Abolish "Lifetime" Alimony Blog -  Subscribe in a reader to this blog.

• Alimony Reform 2ND Wives Club

• Alimony Reform Association Forum

• Alimony Central Org. – List of forums
   

Sample Forms

• Proposed Court Order

• Notice of Hearing

• Motion to Appear by Phone

• Notice of Hearing and Appearance by Phone

• Motion to Compel

• Motion to Deny

• Motion to Object

• Motion to Strike

 

Caselaw

• Acker v. Acker, 904 So.2d 384 (Fla. 2005)

• Buxton v. Buxton, 2D06-5358 (Fla.App. 2 Dist. 9-5-2007)

• Canakaris v. Canakaris, 382 So.2d 1197 (Fla. 1980).doc

• Carls v. Carls, 890 So.2d 1135 (Fla.App. 2 Dist. 2005)

• Duttenhofer v. Duttenhofer, 474 So.2d 251 (Fla.App. 3 Dist. 1985)

• Elliott v. Elliott, 867 So.2d 1198 (Fla.App. 5 Dist. 2004)

• Gerthe v. Gerthe, 857 So.2d 306 (Fla.App. 2 Dist. 2003)

• Gruber v. Gruber, 857 So.2d 329 (Fla.App. 2 Dist. 2003)

• Hillier v. Iglesias, 901 So.2d 947 (Fla.App. 4 Dist. 2005)

• Jaffy v. Jaffy, 4D05-3656 (Fla.App. 4 Dist. 6-27-2007)

• Kahn v. Kahn, 78 So.2d 367 (Fla. 1955) as referenced in Hillier v. Iglesias

• Olsen v. Olsen, 98 Idaho 10 (1976)

• Pimm v. Pimm, 601 So.2d 534 (Fla. 1992)

• Sisson v. Sisson, 336 So.2d 1129 (Fla. 1976)

• Sussman v. Sussman, 915 So.2d 281 (Fla.App. 4 Dist. 2005)

• Vega v. Swait, 4D07-932 (Fla.App. 4 Dist. 8-1-2007)

• Woolf v. Woolf, 901 So.2d 905 (Fla.App. 4 Dist. 2005)

• Yakavonis V. Dolphin Petroleum, Inc., 4D05-3653 (Fla. App. 4 Dist. 2006)

 

Florida Statutes (F.S):

• F.S. 61.08 Alimony
• F. S. 61.12  Attachment or garnishment of amounts due for alimony or child support.
• F.S. 61.14 Enforcement and modification of support, maintenance, or alimony agreements or orders
• F.S. 79 Habeas Corpus
• F.S. 88 Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

• F.S. 222: Method of Setting Apart Homestead and Exemptions

 Misc:

• Child support, alimony and equitable distribution, and garnishment.
• Cases regarding contempt.
   

Legal terms dictionaries:

• Bouvier Law Dictionary
• Duhaime's Law Dictionary
• Free Legal Dictionaries website - multiple selections
• Formfolks Free Legal Glossary
• Harvard Law Dictionary
• Jurist Legal Dictionary
• Law.com Dictionary
• Nolo Legal Dictionary