You are facing financial disclosure
The list your attorney just sent you
Mandatory disclosure arrives as a list, with a deadline, at the worst possible moment. Most of the pain is not legal. It is filing.
Florida requires mandatory financial disclosure in a dissolution of marriage. In practice that means producing tax returns, pay records, bank and investment statements, deeds, titles, loan documents and any marital agreement, usually under a deadline you did not choose.
The people who find this least painful are the ones who did not have to reconstruct it. The people who find it worst are paying an attorney's hourly rate to chase paperwork a drawer could have held. The difference is rarely intelligence or money. It is whether somebody put the originals in one place first.
What matters
- Your attorney sets the list for your case. It changes with the facts and with the rules.
- Produce copies, keep originals. Originals that leave your control have a habit of not coming back.
- Documented, dated custody helps you in disclosure. It is evidence you want, not evidence to avoid.
- Being the organized party is a real advantage, and it is the cheapest one available.
How we handle it
- Same-day appointments where we can, because deadlines do not move.
- Bring everything unsorted. Sorting is our problem, not yours.
- A signed inventory, so you can tell your attorney exactly what exists.
Where we stop
We do not know what your case requires and we will not pretend to. Ask your attorney for the list; we will hold what is on it.
Questions people ask about this
Or you may be
You signed a prenup years ago
It was signed in a lawyer's office before the wedding, and neither of you has looked at it since. That is the normal case, not the careless one.
Family law attorneys
You need a referral that will not become a problem in your file. That is a shorter list than it should be.
Before anyone has filed
There is usually a period where nothing has been filed and both people are thinking. It is the easiest time to do this and the one nobody uses.
When you are ready, we are here.
A short phone call is usually enough to know whether a box is the right answer. Sometimes it is not, and we will say so.