Brandon Legal Group

06/18/2026

TL;DR: Florida courts no longer presume either parent is more fit or deserving. Judges assign sole or shared parental responsibility based on what serves the child's best interest—not what feels fair to the parents. The framework is statutory, and the outcome depends on specific evidence presented at trial.

Parental responsibility is not a consolation prize. It is not split down the middle because a judge wants everyone to feel included. It is assigned—solely or shared—based on evidence, statutory factors, and the realistic capacity of two adults to make joint decisions without weaponizing their child. The courtroom does not care who filed first, who was blindsided, or who feels wronged. It cares whether shared authority will function or fail.

Florida law starts with a rebuttable presumption that shared parental responsibility serves the child's best interest. That presumption collapses the moment evidence shows it would harm the child.

Florida courts assign sole or shared parental responsibility based on statutory factors and evidence—not fairness. Learn how judges evaluate decision-making authority.

06/18/2026

There is a version of you that radiates from the inside out.

06/17/2026

TL;DR: Your digital life—email, social media, crypto, photos—doesn’t die with you. It gets locked in a digital coffin. Many estate plans are useless here, leaving your family to fight tech giants for access. Florida law gives us the tools to fix this, but only if your plan is built for the world we actually live in.

You have dozens of digital accounts. When you die, who holds the keys? Nobody. Your Gmail, your Facebook, your family photos in Dropbox, your Coinbase wallet—they don’t disappear. They become digital ghosts, trapped behind passwords and corporate policies that treat your personal representative like a stranger. The hard truth is that the estate plan your parents had is obsolete. A huge chunk of your wealth, your history, and your life is digital, and without a modern plan, it's as good as gone.

Florida finally gave us a legal sledgehammer: The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act, codified in Florida Statutes Chapter 740.

Florida law provides fiduciary access to digital assets, but only with proper planning. Learn how to prevent locked accounts and lost cryptocurrency after death.

06/17/2026

A hard beginning can still lead to a life you are proud of.

06/16/2026

TL;DR: Florida law divides everything acquired during a marriage into two buckets: marital property subject to equitable distribution, and non-marital property that stays with the original owner. The line between them turns on timing, commingling, and intent—and the burden of proving something is non-marital falls squarely on the spouse claiming it.

The moment one spouse moves to file, the other starts moving assets. Not always with malice. Sometimes out of fear. Sometimes because they believe the house they inherited or the savings account they brought into the marriage is untouchable. It isn't—at least not automatically. Florida courts don't care what spouses believed. They care what the evidence shows. And when the evidence is thin, judges default to calling it marital. That default has cost more than one divorcing spouse the exact asset they thought was safely theirs.

Florida courts presume all assets are marital unless proven otherwise. Learn how commingling, timing, and documentation determine property division in divorce.

06/16/2026

Trusting again does not mean forgetting. It means choosing with clearer eyes.

06/15/2026

Do not confuse fear with a warning. Sometimes fear just hates change.