Florida legal help

• Bankruptcy

  Bankruptcy is federal law, but Florida controls the exemptions that decide what property you keep. This hub explains how Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 work, the automatic stay that stops collection, and why Florida filers use Florida's own exemptions — then links guides for each topic.

• Business Law

  Starting a Florida business begins with a few key choices: which entity to form, the filings that create and maintain it, and the contracts that run it. This hub explains the essentials in plain English, with links to step-by-step guides.

• Criminal Defense

  Criminal defense covers how charges are classified and how a case moves through the courts. In Florida, felonies range from third-degree up to capital, and misdemeanors come in first and second degrees with much lower caps. This hub explains the process and your rights, then links guides to common charges — DUI, drugs, theft, assault, and record sealing.

• Employment Law

  Florida is an at-will employment state, but that doesn't mean anything goes. State and federal law bar discrimination, set a rising minimum wage, require overtime pay, and protect whistleblowers. This hub explains the statewide essentials, then links a guide for each topic.

• Estate Planning & Administration

  Estate planning is how you decide who receives your property, who acts for you if you become incapacitated, and how to spare your family the cost and delay of probate. This hub covers Florida wills, revocable living trusts, powers of attorney, advance directives, and ways to keep assets out of probate — in plain English, with the Florida law behind each.

• Family Law

  Family law covers divorce, parenting, support, and the agreements that shape a family. Florida is a no-fault divorce state, requires six months' residency, divides marital property by equitable distribution, and decides parenting through 'time-sharing' and 'parental responsibility.' This hub explains the statewide essentials — including two major 2023 reforms — then links guides for each topic.

• Immigration

  Immigration is federal law, so the rules are the same nationwide — but the process plays out locally, through USCIS field offices and the federal immigration courts. This hub explains the basics in plain English: how the system works, green cards, family immigration, visas (including visas for victims), citizenship, and what happens in removal proceedings.

• Other Practice Areas

  Beyond personal injury, Florida civil litigators handle a range of disputes. This section covers three: life insurance disputes (denied claims and competing beneficiaries), rental-vehicle arrests (criminal exposure for an unreturned rental, and the renter's possible civil claims), and general civil lawsuit defense (contract, business, and debt claims).

• Personal Injury

  Florida personal injury law changed significantly with the March 2023 tort reform (HB 837). Three rules now shape most cases: a two-year deadline to file most negligence claims, modified comparative negligence that bars recovery if you're more than 50% at fault, and — for car crashes — a no-fault PIP system where you generally must meet a 'serious injury' threshold before you can sue for pain and suffering. This hub explains those, then links guides for specific accident types.

• Personal Injury Defense

  When a business, property owner, driver, or insurer faces an injury claim in Florida, the 2023 tort reforms and several Florida statutes provide real defenses. This section explains the tools the defense side relies on — modified comparative fault, the slip-and-fall notice requirement, dram-shop limits, the negligent-security presumption, collateral-source/subrogation rules, and the tightened bad-faith framework — and links guides for specific defense situations.

• Probate

  Probate is the court process of settling a deceased person's estate. Florida offers a full court-supervised path called formal administration and a faster, simplified path called summary administration. This hub explains both, plus a distinctive Florida rule: in most formal probates the personal representative must hire a Florida attorney.

• Real Property

  Florida real estate law covers buying and selling homes, how you hold title, renting, and the state's distinctive homestead protections. This hub explains the statewide essentials in plain English — including the two-witness rule for deeds, the landlord–tenant deadlines that catch people off guard, and what 'homestead' really means in Florida.

• Workers' Compensation

  Florida workers' compensation is a no-fault system that pays covered employees medical and wage-replacement benefits for on-the-job injuries — and in exchange it is generally the only claim you can bring against your employer. This hub explains who must carry coverage, what it pays, and the deadlines, then links four guides.

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