Practice Areas : Consumer Law
Practice Areas : Family Law
33 family law attorneys serve Orlando, with cases heard in the Ninth Judicial Circuit covering Orange and Osceola counties.
Florida requires a parenting plan in every case involving children and speaks of timesharing rather than custody; child support is set by statutory guidelines that take both incomes and the number of overnights into account. Judges here expect parents to have attempted mediation before a contested hearing, and the circuit runs its own family mediation programme.
Ask how the attorney approaches relocation cases if a move out of the area is possible — Florida has a specific statute for it, and getting the process wrong is expensive to undo.
Lawyers listed in Orlando also cover Personal Injury (51), Criminal Law (47) and Business Law (40). The same practice elsewhere in Florida: Fort Myers (14), Gainesville (13) and Tallahassee (12). Across Florida the directory lists 172 attorneys in this practice; Orlando is 1st by their number among 18 cities.