
Extraordinary Community Organization Supports Legal Needs of Low-Income Clients
As the only legal aid organization in the 19th Judicial Circuit, Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc., or “FRLS”, has been providing free legal services to vulnerable and low-income clients in Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin, and Okeechobee counties since 1966. FRLS provides pro bono civil legal assistance to anyone who falls within 200% of the
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Megan Root Joins
Megan N. Root is a Vero Beach native and a 2009 graduate of Vero Beach High School. She attended the University of South Carolina for her undergraduate studies and received her J.D. and Certificate in Public Interest Law from The University of Alabama School of Law in 2016 where she received multiple accolades for her
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2020 Alimony Reform is all but dead
In what has become an annual tradition here in Florida, any attempts at Alimony Reform have once again died in the latestlegislative session. Both the House and the Senate provided Alimony Reform Bills, (of which the Senate bill never even made it out of chambers) and both are all but dead with there being considerable
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COLLABORATIVE DIVORCE: EASING THE TENSIONS IN THE DISSOLUTION PROCESS
Since Florida’s Collaborative Law Process Act became effective in July 2017, collaborative law has been gaining interest around the state for those contemplating dissolution and the practitioners interested in offering the method to their clientele. Specifically, the collaborative law process is a unique non-adversarial process that preserves a working relationship between parties and reduces the
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