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Featured Titles
Florida Dissolution of Marriage, Eleventh Edition
This publication details the dissolution process from interview through temporary relief and discovery to final judgment. Key areas covered include parental responsibility, child support, alimony, equitable distribution, and attorneys' fees. The publication includes forms and checklists.
Highlights of the new Eleventh Edition include:
- Updates all statutes, rules of procedure, and case law through August 2012
- Discussion of new requirements for email service and e-filing
- Coverage of Fla.R.Jud.Admin. 2.420 and 2.425 regarding confidentiality of court documents and minimization of information placed in court filings
- Discussion of rule changes related to computation of time
- Extensive update of case law related to Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act
- Coverage of extensive amendments to alimony statutes creating durational alimony and providing statutory basis for bridge-the-gap alimony
- New section on pleading temporary relocation with minor children
Evidence in Florida, Ninth Edition
Evidence in Florida offers a practical, contemporary approach to the law of evidence. Experienced practitioners, judges, and law professors share their expertise in all aspects of the gathering and presentation of evidence in Florida courts.
The updated and expanded Ninth Edition includes two new chapters:
- "Electronic Evidence," an introduction to the evidentiary possibilities and pitfalls of electronically stored information (ESI), with detailed discussion of ESI's attendant admissibility, authenticity, and hearsay issues; and
- "Evidentiary Trial Issues," a cogent discussion of exhibits, discovery, demonstrative aids, authoritative literature at trial, and judicial estoppels, including a detailed discussion of business records as evidence
Other highlights include:
- New discussion of the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision on forensic testing and the Confrontation Clause in Williams v. Illinois
- Updated chapters on judicial notice, relevancy, privileges, hearsay, real and demonstrative evidence, expert testimony, and more
- The complete Florida Evidence Code and the original Sponsors' Notes drafted by Professor Charles W. Ehrhardt, as reporter for the evidence code project of the Florida Law Revision Council
Basic Estate Planning in Florida, Seventh Edition
This popular manual covers all facets of basic estate planning. Tax and accounting issues, ethical issues, and problems related to specific forms of ownership and special classes of persons are examined. Homestead considerations and handling of assets acquired in community property jurisdictions are also featured.
Highlights of the 7th Edition include:
- Concise summaries of the estate and gift tax laws, including discussions of
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the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010
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the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
Extensive coverage of various forms of ownership
Chapters devoted to wealth transfer taxes and the use of trusts
Expanded coverage of planning for incapacity, including the new Durable Power of Attorney law
Updates to case law, statutes, and rules through 2012
Extensive discussion of pitfalls and minefields in estate planning
Updated estate planning software resources and checklists
Florida Family Law Set (Rules and Statutes), 2013 Edition
The Florida Family Law Rules and Statutes Set combines the expertise of The Florida Bar and LexisNexis to bring you these two convenient volumes that contain the rules, statutes and other relevant materials you need most in your practice every single day.
Volume I of the set contains the full text of the Rules you need to practice, including:
- Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure
- Florida Rules of Civil Procedure
- Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure Forms and Instructions
- Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Forms and Instructions
- Florida Rules of Judicial Administration
Volume II contains the statutes Florida family law practitioners need most, expertly selected from the Florida Statutes and the United States Code by the Florida Bar's Family Law and Continuing Legal Education Committees. Also included are the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.
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