Fort Lauderdale Divorce Lawyer Blog

Congratulations to Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ivan Fernandez for being elevated to the Third District Court of Appeal. The Third District Court of Appeal and Daily Business Review are reporting that Judge Fernandez was appointed by Governor Rick Scott to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge David Gersten.

After the military, Judge Fernandez became a City of Miami police officer. He was a member of the K-9 unit, handled homicide cases, worked in narcotics and eventually was promoted to the rank of a major.

While working as a police officer, Judge Fernandez enrolled in the University of Miami School of Law. He graduated law school in 1992 but remained a law enforcement officer with the City of Miami Police Department until 1995. In 1995, he retired and opened his own law office.

Many years ago, men worked while most women stayed at the home taking care of the household and children. The attitiudes of how society views women working has changed. Yet, the pressure for men to remain the breadwinners remains strong.

A recent study in the American Journal of Sociology indicats that unemployment in a marriage is a strong predictor of divorce. For some men, they do not feel that it is acceptable to stay home and raise the children while their wife is the sole financial provider.

Women who are unhappily married are more likely to hire a divorce attorney in Broward when they are working instead of if they are unemployed. The study indicated that employment had no bearing on whether or not a woman would proceed with a dissolution of marriage.

There is a stigma about being married in your 20’s, and it is not that your getting married too young, it is that being getting married while in your 20’s has a high divorce rate. The divorce rate is not 70, or even 80% it is somewhere near 50% for people married in their 20’s. That means that almost 50% of people you know who get married in their 20’s will need a divorce attorney in Fort Lauderdale.

Broward divorce attorneys are seeing an increase of people in their 20’s coming to their office. Is there a stigma for those people who are divorced in their 20’s? The short answer is no. There is no sign over your head at that says you are recently divorced. But it is difficult for someone who has been dating the same person for 8 years to get back into the single life. Clearly it is easier for someone who lives in an urban environment to meet new people, but it cannot be very simple. Before you get back to dating make sure you confirm with your Florida marital and family lawyer that your divorce is finalized.

A divorce in your 20’s is still a divorce. It is just like any other breakup except that there are legal issues involved such as alimony and equitable distribution. But once you resolve those issues, you are a single individual who can choose whether or not you will date again.

When many people think of virginity they think of teenage years, high school, or even college. They think of how it may affect their social lives, popularity, or a memorable moment they will remember forever. What they do not think about is how will loosing ones virginity may affect their future marriage.

A recent study by the University of Iowa found out some very shocking news correlating the time when women lost their virginity, to current divorce rates. This study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family surveyed close to 4,000 women.

The study found that women who had lost their virginity in their teens had a shockingly high divorce rate once married. Within 5 years of being married, those women who lost their virginity in their teens had a 31 percent divorce rate. Within 10 years of being married, those same women had a 47 percent divorce rate. This rate alone illustrates that among women in this study almost 50 percent of women who lost their virginity in their teenage years statically should be divorced within 10 years of their marriage.