Miami Family Law Attorneys for Divorce, Child Support, Custody & More.
Facing divorce or another family law issue is tough. Does this sound like you? You're frustrated, angry or confused. You face the uncertain prospect of what the future holds for your relationship with your children. You wonder how this will affect you financially. You're concerned about the talk that will take place about you around the water cooler at work or among your circle of friends.
Add to these feelings the anger you may feel toward your spouse or the other parent. The bitterness that replaced the once unconditional love that existed. The feeling of betrayal that now stays with you from the time you wake up in the morning, until the time you go to bed at night. This confusion, anger and frustration can lead to poor decision-making during a time when every decision can have a huge impact on your future and the future of your relationship with your children. You are not alone if you have experienced these feelings or if you want to protect yourself from these experiences.
Dade County Family Lawyers with Experience You Can Count On
Our Dade County family lawyers understand that the end of a personal relationship can be the start of traumatic emotions, financial changes and the legal process. As a child who witnessed her parents' divorce, a litigant in her own prior divorce proceeding and a former family court judicial law clerk, our Managing Attorney, Lisa Marie Vari, knows the legal as well as the emotional and financial implications of a family law court case. She has more than 18 years of combined legal experience in Florida and Pennsylvania family law cases and can give you the information, advice and guidance that will help you identify and achieve what is important to you and to reach solutions that will enable you and your family to move forward with your lives.
At Vari & Associates, LLC, our practice is dedicated solely to assisting clients with the needs of today's modern families. Whether you are a mother going through a divorce, a father seeking more substantial custody rights with his children, a stepparent seeking to adopt, an engaged couple preparing for their marriage, or a same sex couple seeking to enforce legal rights regarding their relationship, our Florida family law attorneys can help with your family law issues. Our Miami divorce attorneys are devoted to helping our Florida family law clients avoid prolonged conflict to arrive at solutions that are in the best interests of them and their families.
Providing Our Miami Divorce Clients With Options
After spending the first 18 years of her career as a family law trial attorney and litigator in Pennsylvania, Attorney Lisa Vari came to the conclusion that there must be a better way to resolve family law disputes than through traditional court intervention and litigation. The opening of the Miami law practice became the opportunity to do things differently, and hopefully, better. Our Miami-Dade County family law firm now offers clients three different options, including two alternative dispute resolution options, for resolving their family law disputes.
First, our Florida family law lawyers offer clients the ability to mediate their family law disputes. The definition of mediation includes the process whereby a neutral family mediator facilities communication and helps to guide parties with family law disputes to identify issues, explore options and arrive at an agreement acceptable to the parties without offering legal advice or advocating for either party. The judges of Miami-Dade County have mandated that all family division cases are required to attend mandatory family mediation before the Dade County family court judges will grant the parties a hearing date. Mediation in divorce cases is required as well as custody mediation and mediation of all other disputed family law issues. If the divorce mediation process does not yield a mediated settlement agreement, the parties are free to obtain a hearing date and utilize the traditional court process to resolve their Florida family law disputes. Attorney Lisa Marie Vari is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Law Mediator and can act as the neutral divorce mediator in any Florida family law case. Or, Attorney Vari and our firm's family law attorneys can act as legal counsel to our Miami family law clients during the mediation process. Read more.
Second, Attorney Lisa Marie Vari is a trained Collaborative Family Law Attorney and can represent our clients in the Miami collaborative divorce or family law process. With the Collaborative Law process, family law clients are provided guidance by their chosen Florida collaborative divorce lawyers and other jointly selected neutral professionals to resolve their legal issues in a respectful, honest and private manner without the threat of court action. The parties identify, discuss and jointly resolve their most important legal issues which helps to promote a healthier relationship in the future which is especially important when the parties are parents. Read more.
Third, our Miami family law attorneys offer our clients traditional representation with negotiation and settlement or contested cases involving court intervention, litigation and potentially trials or court appearances on disputed family law issues. Attorney Vari is an experienced negotiator and is proud to say that most of the family law issues for the 1500+ family law cases our offices in Florida and Pennsylvania have handled were settled without the necessity of court intervention. However, Attorney Vari also offers clients the experience of having appeared in well over five hundred contested family law issues in her career. Such cases include family law disputes involving custody orders including shared custody, relocation of minor children, orders regarding parental responsibility and decision-making for severely ill children, property distribution, alimony and spousal support, child support, domestic violence, juvenile law issues and adoption. Attorney Lisa Marie Vari has represented clients with their initial requests for relief, in contempt and modification actions, as well as on appeal to the appellate courts. Read more.
Comprehensive Legal Advice from our Lawyers for Divorce in Miami
Some Miami family law firms will not accept cases that involve child custody or other common family law issues or they refuse cases if there is the possiblity that the case won't settle. Our Miami Divorce Lawyers accept all types of family law issues and will not abandon you if your case isn't resolved by a mediated settlement agreement, collaborative family law agreement, or otherwise. As stated above, our Miami Family Law Attorneys are experienced not only in settling cases, but also in litigating disputed family law cases.
Further, you won't have to worry about your Miami divorce, property division and alimony issues being handled by one Miami family law firm and needing another family law firm to handle the Miami child custody and support issues. Our Miami family law firm provides comprehenisve legal advice for all Florida family law issues including: Miami divorces, distribution of marital property in Miami and debts, Miami spousal support and alimony, Florida prenuptial agreements, paternity and child support in Miami, Miami child custody and timesharing issues, international adoptions as well as adoption of Florida children, the legal rights of Miami's GLBT community including domestic partnership agreements, divorce and custody mediation in Miami and Miami collaborative family law cases.
Contact Our Miami Divorce Attorneys Today
Contact our Miami divorce attorneys at 305-329-2560, toll free at 855-WWW-VARI (855-999-8274), or e-mail us to schedule an appointment to discuss your Dade County, Broward County or Monroe County family law case. Our Miami divorce lawyers accept family law cases in Miami-Dade County, Broward County and Monroe County. Please click here to learn about your consultation options.
Our Miami divorce law firm is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. and weekends and evenings by appointment. Appointments are available in person at our downtown Miami law office and at several meeting locations throughout Dade and Broward Counties including Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, West Country Club Drive in Aventura, Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood and in Homestead. Appointments are also available by telephone or via Skype internet video chat.
Our Miami family law firm's focus and our attorneys' experience makes us qualified to handle any Florida family law matter. If you would like to learn more about how our Florida divorce law firm may be different from other Florida family law attorneys, click here.
