Family Law Attorney in Boca Raton, Florida

Lewert Law Offices, P.A.

Bank of America Building
2000 Glades Road, Suite 312
Boca Raton, Florida 33431
USA

 (561) 948-3419 or (888) 671-3855
 (561) 391-3786

www.lewertlaw.com
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The Lewert Law Office helps family law clients understand the consequences of the life-altering decisions they face. In settlement negotiations, during mediation, and at trial, we explain all possible outcomes of each option to help our clients make an informed decision. That is our commitment to you.

Our Founder, family law attorney, Tina L. Lewert is Board Certified in Marital & Family Law. She established our law office to help our clients resolve their divorce, alimony, child support, child custody, and other family law matters. Our focus is on obtaining resolutions that are equitable and in the best interests of our clients’ children. When possible, our goal is to avoid emotionally charged confrontations.

And while we strive to avoid unnecessary conflict, we will never avoid conflict at the expense of your rights. If litigation is the only way to achieve your goals, we will fight for you in court. The founder of our firm has a background in civil litigation and family law. Ms. Lewert dedicates 100 of her practice to marital and family law matters. This background has given her the experience necessary to ensure that all aspects of your family law case are fully developed prior to final settlement or trial.

We have developed a reputation for providing effective divorce and family law representation in Boca Raton and the surrounding communities. Clients and peer attorneys know of our dedication to obtaining effective resolutions through mediation. However, if mediation fails, we will aggressively litigate for you in court.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Division of Debt; Divorce and Education Expenses; Equitable Property Division; Home Equity & Divorce; Parental Relocation; Parental Responsibility; Parenting Plans; Post-Judgment Contempt/Enforcement; Post-Judgment Modifications; Custody Evaluators

Practice Areas Description

Attorney Tina L. Lewert provides legal assistance in the following areas of Family Law:

- Alimony

In Florida, various types of alimony can be awarded to either a husband or a wife when there is a need and an ability to pay or as otherwise required to do "equity and justice" between the parties, including Permanent, Rehabilitative, Bridge-the Gap, Lump Sum, and Temporary Alimonies. At Lewert Law Offices, P.A., we will work with you, your spouse and the court to obtain the alimony you need.

- Child Custody

At Lewert Law Offices, P.A., we work with parents to formulate child custody agreements and parenting plans. Our focus is on the best interests and welfare of your children and to craft an agreement that is acceptable to the court and fair to both parents. We will work with you to identify factors relevant to child custody determinations and help you to communicate those factors and your situation to the court.

- Child Support

At Lewert Law Offices, P.A., our child support attorney, Tina L. Lewert, offers insight gained through years of experience resolving child custody, divorce, and other family law matters to help parents negotiate child support agreements that are in the best interests of the child and appropriate for each parent's financial and personal circumstances.

- Clients from Out of State

As a divorced parent, Florida law recognizes your right to have a meaningful relationship with your children, no matter where you live. Here at Lewert Law Offices in Boca Raton, Florida, we have helped many divorced parents modify parenting plans and child visitation schedules, so that you and your child can spend quality time together. Attorney Tina L. Lewert is a Florida board certified family law attorney, experienced in bringing custody issues to trial, as well as settling in mediation and/or through negotiation. Her goal is to create a positive outcome for you and your children

- Complex Divorce

Attorney Tina L. Lewert has safeguarded the rights of many clients in high net worth divorces, and advises the following to protect your assets:

• Have your commercial and residential property appraised by a reputable professional
• Investigate the true worth of your pension, I.R.A. and investment funds
• Demand full financial disclosure from your former spouse, so that all assets are counted
• Establish the value of your or your spouse's medical or legal practice, small business or corporation, including future growth potential

- Division of Debt

Attorney Tina L. Lewert understands how a divorce can and will impact your financial future. Lewert Law Offices, P.A. specializes 100% in divorce and family law, serving clients in Boca Raton, Florida, as well as throughout the entire South Florida area. She makes sure her clients understand that property division, unlike custody or support matters, cannot be modified at a later time. Once the order is entered, absent a showing of actual fraud by one of the parties, the property settlement is binding. This means you want to be absolutely certain all debts and assets have been discovered before your divorce judgment is finalized.

- Divorce and Education Expenses

Attorney Tina L. Lewert is experienced in helping families negotiate agreements for education expenses, both for college and private secondary or primary school. If you are divorcing now, this is a good time to put your concerns about the children's education on the table for negotiation. We will work with you to file a modification of the child support order due to a change in circumstances.

- Divorce

Florida Divorce Attorney Tina L. Lewert, the founder of our firm, not only advocates for our clients in mediation and litigation, but serves as a vital source of information. She answers your questions and provides the legal advice you need to help alleviate the stress and confusion that comes with a divorce. Even if you haven’t made the decision to divorce yet, we encourage you to come to our office and discuss your options and your rights.

- Domestic Violence

At Lewert Law Offices, P.A., we help clients to pursue restraining orders, also known as petitions for injunction for protection against domestic violence. Abuse does not have to occur and must never be tolerated. Even if there have only been threats of violence, is it still imperative to secure a protective order.

- Equitable Property Division

Property rights established in a final dissolution order cannot be modified in the future based on changed circumstances. Attorney Tina L. Lewert’s background and experience means she knows what it takes to ensure that all aspects of your family law case, including financial matters, are fully developed prior to the final divorce decree. That often means teaming with forensic accountants and other financial experts to find hidden assets and accounts, to assess the value of business interests, or to fully and accurately analyze incomes pursuant to the domestic relations statutes.

- Family Law in Florida

Going though the divorce process is an extremely emotional experience in your life. Quite often, emotions might cloud judgment due to feelings of anger, hostility, fear and disloyalty that you might experience. Your main objective is to maintain an emotionally healthy state of mind during this process in order to ultimately obtain a successful settlement of your divorce. It is important to protect your minor children during this process and to protect them from becoming involved, as it will have an extremely overwhelming effect on them, which could create certain destructive behavior, both during the process and afterwards. It is important to be aware of your minor children's feelings during this process and to protect them and provide adequate therapeutic intervention, if necessary, to assist them in dealing with their own feelings while you are going though your divorce. The decisions you make before and during your divorce will have a lasting effect for your future and that of your children.

- Home Equity & Divorce

At Lewert Law Offices, P.A. we have negotiated property settlements for families of all sizes and income levels. Since the family home is quite possibly your largest asset, we suggest we have it appraised by a neutral real estate professional. If you decide to sell, list the home with a reputable realtor both of you trust. If the equity in your home is negative, you may have to list it as a short sale. Although selling your home for less than it is worth is painful, it does reduce financial obligations at a time when many families are struggling, leaving the parties free and clear of the obligation and able to start anew.

- Mediation

At Lewert Law Offices, P.A., we believe it critical for people facing family law issues to fully understand the consequences of their decisions and how those decisions are made. When those decisions are made in mediation, peace prevails and the decision-making stays with you and your spouse. Attorney Tina L. Lewert is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Law Mediator. In addition to her law practice, she is able to help parties to a divorce reach agreements resolving their legal issues through mediation.

- Parental Relocation

When a custodial parent proposes to move away, the prospect requires major adjustment by the parents, children, grandparents and other extended family members, and the family court must decide whether the proposed move is in the best interests of the children. While relocation disputes can be emotional and often difficult to resolve, we will address the facts of your case and consider the interests of all parties, primarily the children.

- Parental Responsibility

Even if one parent is designated the primary residential parent and gets to spend more time with your children, the non-custodial parent typically has equal parenting rights and is equally entitled to be consulted on all decisions for the children. At Lewert Law Offices, P.A., we encourage all of our clients to take an active role in the lives of their children. Divorce can do too much damage for one parent to disappear from their kids’ lives, and children need to have a positive relationship with both parents. Did you know it is your former spouse’s duty to foster a positive relationship between you and your children?

- Parenting Plans

The ideal parenting plan is flexible, yet fair. If it is well written, it will serve the best interests of your family for a long time to come. Attorney Tina L. Lewert spends a great deal of time with clients to make sure they understand how divorce and child custody laws affect them and their individual situations.

- Paternity

At Lewert Law Offices, P.A., we work with unmarried parents to establish and enforce the non-custodial parent's obligation to pay child support. Our founder, attorney Tina L. Lewert, also protects both parents' parental rights, including the right to have a relationship with the child. We will work with you to ensure that the necessary steps are taken to establish paternity. That includes initiating a paternity proceeding and obtaining DNA testing, if paternity has not yet been established or if paternity is challenged.

- Post-Judgment Contempt / Enforcement

Are you having trouble supporting yourself or your children because of your former spouse's failure to satisfy his or her child support or alimony obligations? Has a substantial change in circumstances made the existing child support order inadequate to meet your child's needs? At Lewert Law Offices, P.A., we help our clients enforce child support and alimony agreements and orders. We also aggressively represent clients seeking to enforce their parenting and/or visitation rights against a parent who is not acting in the best interests of the parties’ children.

- Post-Judgment Modifications

In Florida, a "substantial change in circumstances" can be grounds for increasing, decreasing, or terminating a child support or alimony order, or for modifying a child custody order. At the Lewert Law Offices, P.A., in Boca Raton, Florida, we help our clients reach resolutions in the modification of child support, spousal support or child custody orders.

- Prenuptial Agreements

If you are contemplating marriage, including marrying for a second or third time, we encourage you to work with our family law attorney to draft a prenuptial agreement. That all-important document can protect your right to premarital property or your children's right to your estate. Even though most of our clients who are remarrying truly want the marriage to last, many realize that circumstances change, and wish to take the pragmatic step of protecting their financial interests. They also recognize that the divorce rate for second and third marriages is even higher than the divorce rate for first marriages, so they ask our family law firm to review or draft a prenuptial agreement complying with Florida law.

- Supportive Relationships

The Florida Legislature has enacted new laws to address the supportive relationship between a former spouse and a new paramour who are cohabitating but are not married. Prior to the statutory revision, since alimony is typically only terminated upon the recipient’s remarriage or either party’s death, alimony recipients were taking advantage of this loophole by living with their new partner without the benefit of marriage in order to prevent their alimony from terminating. If your former spouse is financially interdependent with another person, is commingling assets, and/or is in a relationship that is substantially similar to a marriage, you may have grounds for an action to modify or terminate your spousal support obligation.

- Visitation and Timesharing

An important component of resolving custody issues is the successful establishment of visitation and timesharing schedules. Attorney Tina L. Lewert, our firm’s founder and Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Law Mediator, believes in the process of mediation. She encourages her clients to resolve issues about visitation and parenting plans through mediation and to attempt to avoid putting the decision in the hands of an impartial judge who does not know you or your family. However, if litigation is necessary to further your interests, Tina Lewert has the skills, experience and tenacity to achieve the best possible result in your case.

- Working with Custody Evaluators

Nothing you tell the custody evaluator or Guardian ad Litem is confidential, but everything you tell attorney Tina L. Lewert is. Her goal is to answer all your questions about divorce and custody arrangements, so you have the information you need to make informed decisions. Once the interviews are finished, the evaluator may meet with the children's pediatrician, teachers or daycare providers to help determine each parent's parenting skills and level of involvement. The evaluator will report his or her findings to the court, including recommendations for custody, timesharing, and a parenting plan.

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