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Barry W. Kaufman
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Practice Areas
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Collections
- Consumer Law
- Class Action, Lemon Law
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father's Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
Additional Practice Areas
- General Civil
- Small Claims
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- Florida
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- Middle District of Fla
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Education
- Florida Coastal School of Law
- Doctor of Jurisprudence/Juris Doctor
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Professional Associations
- Florida State Bar # 306540
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813 Questions Answered
- Q. Can I prevent a body attachment for late payments on court-ordered debt to my ex-wife?
- A: Contact the attorney with a solid repayment plan. You MUST make the court-ordered payments; there's no getting around the court order. (Of course it went to your ex-wife.) Set aside your feelings about your ex; this is a legal obligation. Get on with it.
- Q. Are National Debt Relief Programs effective or fraudulent?
- A: I have yet to run into one that's fraudulent, but not all of them are effective or efficient; and none of them can promise you that a given creditor will work with them. In my opinion, there is nothing these guys can do for you that you cannot do yourself, but many people, particularly folks with several high balance debts, just do not want to deal with several creditors at the same time. Perfectly understandable, so debt relief companies fill that gap, or need.
The big red flag for me is a set-up where they collect a certain amount of money from you before they begin negotiating with your creditors. What happens, as you can probably guess, is that while they are collecting $$ from you ... Read More
- Q. Do I have any rights to my ex-husband's property after his death?
- A: The division of your home should have been addressed in your divorce decree. Assuming that he retained sole title to the house after your divorce, you would not be entitled to it. However, you can always take your divorce decree and any other documents to an attorney in your town for a second, and perhaps better, opinion.
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