The Feminist Divorce Lawyer

The Feminist Divorce Lawyer Attorney Christina Green, founder of Women’s Family Law Firm in Orlando, FL. 19 years in family law.

(divorces, custody, support & more) Helping women feel informed, empowered & never alone.

07/08/2026

Boating is an inherently white activity. So is mudding, hunting, camping in the middle of nowhere, all the things treated as just normal weekend fun when white kids do them. But for the parents of black children, these are dangerous activities.

Black mothers have carried this fear forever.

No mom should have to wonder if the thing that puts her child in danger is the color of their skin.

06/30/2026

You don’t need his permission for this one.

Go to irs.gov.

Click the blue create account box.

Click sign in or create account.

Click the green outlined box that says ID.me create an account.

Once you’re verified, you’ll connect your ID.me to the IRS and log in.

Click records and status on the dark blue bar.

Click tax records.

Click the blue view transcripts button.

You can pull about four years of return transcripts this way, and there’s also a wage and income transcript option if you want to see what was reported separately.

You have just as much right to this document as he does. You don’t need his permission and you don’t need to tell him you’re requesting it.

This works even if you’re still married. This works even if you have no plans to leave. Knowledge is protection.

Professional perspective only, not legal advice for your situation. No attorney-client relationship created.

06/30/2026

You know the parent, the one who can’t be bothered with driving or sacrificing weekends for their child. I see it far too often. You have a 50-50 plan and then the other parent wants to stop the child’s activities on their time but for no good reason other than it’s too inconvenient.

Here’s a parenting plan tip.
Fla. Stat. 61.13(3)(p) tells the court to look at each parent’s willingness to be involved in a child’s school and extracurricular activities when deciding what’s in that child’s best interest.

So when I draft a parenting plan, I build in language that protects the child’s existing activities. The child should remain enrolled in any extracurricular activity they were already doing before the case started. This matters because kids who lose their routine on top of losing their family structure suffer more, not less.

I also add an unreasonable refusal clause. Neither parent can unreasonably refuse to allow the child to continue or start an activity. This closes the loophole where one parent pushes for 50/50 and then quietly blocks sports, dance, or whatever the child has been doing, because now it’s their weekend to drive or their wallet covering the fee.

If you’re heading into a custody case, ask your attorney about adding both of these provisions. It’s a small line in the agreement that can prevent a much bigger fight two years from now.

Professional perspective only, not legal advice for your situation. No attorney-client relationship created.

06/27/2026

Fla. Stat. 61.13(3)(o) requires the Court to consider “the particular parenting tasks customarily performed by each parent and the division of parental responsibilities before the institution of litigation and during the pending litigation, including the extent to which parenting responsibilities were undertaken by third parties.”

What that means in plain language is the judge is required to look at who actually did the parenting during the marriage before the divorce was ever filed.

So here is what that means practically.

If you have been handling everything and your marriage is failing, stop handling everything alone. Start asking the other parent to step in(in writing). Ask them to take the kids to the appointment. Ask them to stay home when the kids are sick. Ask them to handle bedtime. Ask them to attend the school meeting.

Then document whether they do or they don’t.

A lot of people take on every role in the household and never push the other parent to be involved. We want to show not only did you do it all but you asked them to help and they refused.

Give them the opportunity. Document the outcome. Every time.

I’m a divorce lawyer sharing my professional perspective on legal topics. This is not legal advice for your specific situation. No attorney-client relationship is created by viewing this content.

06/25/2026

This is one of the biggest myths in custody cases.

Florida uses something called the gross up method when calculating child support in cases where each parent has the child at least 20% of overnights in a year. Both parents’ incomes go into the calculation. The number of overnights each parent has goes into the calculation. Then the obligations are offset against each other and the parent with the higher number pays the difference.

So in a true 50/50 case, the income gap between the two parents is what determines who pays and how much. Equal time does not mean equal income. And Florida courts are required to run this math. It is not optional. The statute uses the word must.

After 19 years of practicing family law I have watched people agree to 50/50 schedules without ever running the child support numbers first. Do not be that person. Before you agree to any parenting plan, know what the child support calculation actually looks like for your specific income situation.

See section 61.30(11)(b), Florida Statutes. See also Garren v. Oliver, 108 So. 3d 1158 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013) and Buhler v. Buhler, 913 So. 2d 767 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005).

Professional perspective only, not legal advice for your situation. No attorney-client relationship created.

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