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At The Law Office of John Vernon Moore, P.A., we are committed to providing experienced legal representation across a wide range of practice areas. Whether you’re facing a personal injury, navigating a difficult family matter, defending against criminal charges, or planning for your family’s future, our firm is here to guide you with integrity, experience, and compassion.

Each case is unique—and so is our approach. We take the time to understand your situation and develop a legal strategy tailored to your goals and best interests.

Explore our key areas of practice below to learn how we can support you.

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Personal Injury

Wrongful Death

We at the Law Office of John Vernon Moore P.A. assist victims of wrongful death in Florida. The death of...

Underinsured and Uninsured Motor Vehicle Accidents

Being involved in a car accident is stressful enough, but discovering the at-fault driver has little or no insurance can...

Talcum Powder

For decades, talcum powder has been a common household product, used by millions for personal hygiene. However, growing evidence has...

Surgical Errors

Patients who are victims of surgical mistakes should contact a lawyer at the Law Office of John Vernon Moores P.A....

Spinal Cord Injuries

If you or your loved have been involved in an automobile, motorcycle Pedestrian, bicycle or construction site accidents, resulting in...

Slip and Fall Injuries

One can slip and fall any day anywhere which can become the reason of a simple or serious injury. It...

Semi Truck Accident Injury

Accidents involving semi-trucks are among the most catastrophic on our roadways. The immense size and weight of these vehicles mean...

Florida Auto Accidents

A car accident can happen in an instant, but the consequences can last a lifetime. In Florida, a state with...

Premises Liability

Premises Liability is a particular form of personal injury law that requires an injured person to hold a property owner...

Nursing Home Negligence

Nursing Home Negligence in Brevard, Melbourne, Viera & USA There are over 2.5 million underreported cases of nursing home negligence...

Minor Impact Collisions

Minor Impact Car Crashes If you suffer from a soft tissue injury, as a result of a minor impact car...

Florida Vaginal Mesh

For years, vaginal mesh was a common surgical treatment for pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence, conditions that affect...

Florida Turnpike

The Florida Turnpike is one of the busiest and most vital transportation corridors in the state, but it is also...

Florida Tourism Accidents

Florida is a world-renowned tourist destination, attracting millions of visitors each year to its beautiful beaches, theme parks, and vibrant...

Fatal Auto Accidents

Losing a loved one in a fatal auto accident is an unimaginable tragedy. In an instant, a family is shattered,...

Dram Shop Liability

If in an alcohol-related accident, you or a loved one have been injured, you may be able to hold a...

Construction Accidents

Construction Accidents The number of construction accidents in Florida have risen rapidly in the last two decades since Florida has...

Brain Injury

HELPING BRAIN INJURY VICTIMS IN FLORIDA Brain injuries are responsible for around one-third of all injury-related deaths in the U.S.,...

Birth Injury

The birth of a child should be a joyous occasion, but when a medical professional’s negligence turns that joy into...

Back/Neck Surgery

Undergoing back or neck surgery is a significant medical event, and patients place an immense amount of trust in their...

Aviation Accidents

Aviation accidents, whether involving a major commercial airline or a small private plane, are among the most tragic and complex...

Admiralty/Maritime Law

Florida’s extensive coastline and bustling ports make it a hub of maritime activity, from commercial shipping and cruise lines to...

Actos

ACTOS: If you or a loved one have suffered severe side effects after taking Actos, including the development of bladder...

Bike Accident

Florida’s beautiful weather and scenic roadways make it a popular destination for cyclists. However, sharing the road with cars and...

Family Law

Grant-Valkaria Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Grant-Valkaria is Brevard County living at acreage scale — a rural south-county town where properties come with barns and pastures,...

Melbourne Beach Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Melbourne Beach is where the barrier island narrows and slows down — Brevard’s oldest beach community, a town of ocean-to-river...

Indialantic Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Indialantic occupies a few blocks between the Atlantic and the Indian River — one of Brevard’s smallest towns and one...

Indian Harbour Beach Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Indian Harbour Beach is the quiet achiever of the beachside — a small, settled city of canal-front homes, strong schools,...

Satellite Beach Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Satellite Beach is the beachside community most shaped by Patrick Space Force Base — the base sits at its northern...

Cape Canaveral Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Cape Canaveral is where Brevard’s working coast lives — a compact beach city between Port Canaveral and the Space Force...

Merritt Island Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Merritt Island is Brevard’s in-between place in the best sense — the big island between the rivers, home to Kennedy...

Cocoa Beach Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Cocoa Beach lives differently than the rest of Brevard — a barrier-island town of surf culture, tourism businesses, vacation rentals,...

Cocoa Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Cocoa wears more hats than any city its size in Brevard — historic Cocoa Village on the riverfront, working neighborhoods...

Rockledge Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Rockledge holds a distinction few residents think about until they need it: Brevard County’s oldest city sits closer to the...

West Melbourne Family Law & Divorce Attorney

West Melbourne has quietly become one of Brevard County’s most sought-after family addresses — new construction off Minton Road, top-rated...

Viera Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Viera is Brevard County’s planned community success story — master-planned neighborhoods, A-rated schools, and the county’s own seat of justice:...

Titusville Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Titusville sits at the north end of Brevard County — the gateway to Kennedy Space Center, a city of space...

Palm Bay Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Palm Bay is Brevard County’s largest city — a community of working families, young households, veterans, and retirees spread across...

Melbourne Family Law & Divorce Attorney

Melbourne is where The Law Office of John Vernon Moore, P.A. calls home — our office sits on North Wickham...

Grandparents Rights in Florida

Grandparents call our office in two very different situations. In one, they have been cut off — a family rupture,...

Common Law Marriage in Florida

Twenty years together, joint accounts, children raised, a house shared — surely at some point Florida treats a couple as...

Legal Separation Alternatives in Florida

Couples ask for it every week: a legal separation — married in name, separated in law, finances divided, parenting settled,...

Annulment in Florida

An annulment does something a divorce cannot: it declares that a valid marriage never existed at all. That distinction feels...

Name Restoration After Divorce in Florida

Of all the questions in a divorce, this one has the simplest good answer: yes, you can take your former...

Child Name Changes in Florida

Changing a child’s name in Florida is deliberately harder than changing an adult’s — because two parents may disagree, and...

Adult Name Change in Florida

Changing your name as an adult in Florida is a court process — a petition, fingerprints, a background check, and...

Agreements, Appeals & Enforcement FAQs

Marital agreements, appeals, enforcement, and fees — the procedural backbone of family law — generate a steady stream of practical...

Enforcing Settlement Agreements in Florida

Most Florida divorces end not with a trial but with a signature: the marital settlement agreement, negotiated between the parties,...

Section 57.105 Sanctions in Florida Family Law

Family litigation attracts a particular kind of abuse: claims filed to punish rather than win, defenses maintained long after the...

Attorneys Fees in Florida Family Law

The most practical question in family litigation is often not who wins, but who pays for the fight. Florida answers...

Contempt in Florida Family Court

Contempt is the family court’s ultimate answer to “make me”: the power to fine, sanction, and jail a party who...

Enforcing a Final Judgment in Florida Family Law

A final judgment is supposed to be final in both senses: the end of the litigation, and the beginning of...

Motions for Rehearing in Florida Family Law

Between accepting a bad ruling and mounting a full appeal sits a tool many litigants never hear about: the motion...

The Family Law Appeals Process in Florida

The judge rules against you. Everyone tells you an appeal takes years and wins never — and everyone is half...

Drafting an Enforceable Prenup in Florida

A prenuptial agreement is only as good as its worst day — the day it gets tested in a courtroom...

Challenging a Prenuptial Agreement in Florida

A prenuptial agreement waiving everything you would otherwise receive is sitting in your divorce file — and your spouse’s lawyer...

Cohabitation Agreements in Florida

More couples than ever build lives together without marrying — buying homes, raising children, mixing finances across decades. What most...

Postnuptial Agreements in Florida

Prenups get the attention, but the agreement more couples actually need is the one signed after the wedding. A postnuptial...

Florida Domestic Violence & Injunction FAQs

If you are in immediate danger, call 911. Confidential help, any hour: Florida Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-500-1119; National Domestic Violence...

Firearms & Protective Injunctions in Florida

No consequence of a Florida protective injunction surprises respondents more than this one: the moment a final injunction is entered...

False Allegations of Domestic Violence in Florida

Domestic violence is real, common, and devastating — and so, in a smaller but genuine number of cases, are false...

Domestic Violence & Divorce in Florida

Domestic violence changes the shape of a divorce. It changes the safety planning around filing, the temporary orders sought on...

Violation of an Injunction in Florida

A protective injunction is only as strong as its enforcement — and Florida enforces hard. Violating an injunction is a...

The Injunction Hearing: What to Expect in Florida

Every protective injunction in Florida funnels toward one event: the final hearing. Held within roughly 15 days of filing, it...

Defending Against an Injunction in Florida

The knock on the door comes with paperwork: a deputy serves you with a petition for a protective injunction and...

How to Get a Protective Injunction in Florida

When you need court protection from someone, the process moves faster than almost anything else the legal system does —...

Stalking Injunctions in Florida

Stalking rarely announces itself with a single dramatic act. It accumulates: the ex who appears wherever you are, the accounts...

Sexual Violence Injunctions in Florida

Florida reserves a distinct protective order for survivors of sexual violence — one built around the realities of these cases:...

Dating Violence Injunctions in Florida

Serious relationships do not need a shared lease to turn dangerous. Florida recognized years ago that the boyfriend or girlfriend...

Repeat Violence Injunctions in Florida

Not every threat comes from a partner or family member. The neighbor whose disputes have turned physical. The former friend...

Domestic Violence Injunctions in Florida

If you are in immediate danger, call 911. For confidential help any hour, the Florida Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-500-1119...

Florida Paternity FAQs

Paternity law generates urgent, practical questions — usually at emotional moments: a new baby, a breakup, a doubt, a deployment....

Military Paternity Cases in Florida

Paternity issues take on a different shape when one parent wears a uniform. A servicemember at Patrick Space Force Base...

Acknowledgment of Paternity in Florida

In the exhausted, joyful hours after a baby is born, a hospital staffer hands unmarried parents a form. Signing it...

Child Support & Custody in Florida Paternity Cases

Establishing paternity answers one question — who the legal father is — and immediately raises two more: how the child’s...

Birth Certificates & Paternity in Florida

The birth certificate feels like the official word on who a child’s parents are — which is exactly why it...

Unmarried Parents Rights in Florida

Nearly half of first births in Florida are to unmarried parents. Some are couples raising children together without the paperwork;...

Fathers Rights in Florida

For years, fathers walked into Florida courtrooms carrying a suspicion — sometimes earned by history, sometimes not — that the...

DNA Testing in Florida Paternity Cases

Modern paternity cases rarely turn on testimony about relationships and timelines — they turn on science. A painless cheek swab...

Disestablishing Paternity in Florida

Few discoveries hit harder than learning — or strongly suspecting — that a child you have been supporting is not...

Establishing Paternity in Florida

In Florida, an unmarried father has no enforceable rights to his child — no timesharing, no say in decisions —...

Florida Property Division FAQs

Property division generates more questions than any other part of a Florida divorce — because it touches everything a couple...

Real Estate & Investment Property in Divorce

Real estate is where Brevard County divorces get complicated fast. Beyond the marital home, Space Coast couples own beachside condos...

Forensic Accounting in Florida Divorce

Some divorces are decided by argument. Others are decided by arithmetic — and when the money is complicated, hidden, or...

Inheritances & Gifts in a Florida Divorce

An inheritance from a parent. A gift of money toward a down payment. Jewelry passed down through generations, or a...

Dividing Marital Debt in a Florida Divorce

Divorcing couples fight hardest over assets, but debts often do more lasting damage. Mortgages, credit cards, car loans, tax bills,...

Dissipation of Marital Assets in Florida

Divorce brings out financial self-help in some spouses: the girlfriend-funded credit card, the casino runs, the accounts drained into cash...

Commingling & Transmutation of Assets in Florida

Nonmarital property has one great weakness in a Florida divorce: it does not always stay nonmarital. An inheritance deposited into...

Cryptocurrency in a Florida Divorce

Cryptocurrency has moved from fringe to mainstream in Brevard County divorces. Bitcoin and Ethereum holdings, exchange accounts, hardware wallets, staking...

Stock Options & RSUs in a Florida Divorce

On the Space Coast, equity compensation is everywhere. Aerospace and defense employers, tech contractors, and publicly traded companies across Brevard...

QDROs in Florida Divorce: Dividing Retirement Accounts

Retirement accounts are often the second-largest asset in a Brevard County divorce — sometimes the largest. But unlike a bank...

Business Valuation in a Florida Divorce

When one spouse owns a business, the divorce has two hard questions baked into it: what is the business worth,...

The Marital Home in a Florida Divorce

For most Brevard County couples, the house is the biggest thing on the table in a divorce — financially and...

Marital vs. Nonmarital Property in Florida

Before a Brevard County judge can divide anything in a divorce, every asset and debt must first be sorted into...

Florida Alimony FAQs: The Post-Reform Answers

The alimony questions Brevard County spouses actually ask — answered plainly under Florida’s post-2023 law by The Law Office of...

Military Retirement and Alimony in Florida

When a military marriage ends on the Space Coast, two money streams get tangled: the division of military retired pay...

Alimony Enforcement in Florida

An alimony award that is not paid is a court order being defied — and Florida treats it that way....

Alimony and Taxes in Florida: The Post-2019 Rules

For most of modern history, alimony came with a federal tax deal: the payor deducted it, the recipient reported it,...

High Net Worth Alimony in Florida

When the incomes are large, alimony changes character: the numbers grow, the income itself becomes hard to define, and the...

Income Imputation in Florida Alimony Cases

Alimony runs on two numbers — need and ability to pay — and both can be manipulated by the same...

Alimony Buyouts in Florida: Pricing the Clean Break

Every month, the payment. Every month, the reminder. For payors and recipients alike, ongoing alimony keeps two divorced people financially...

Cohabitation and Alimony in Florida: Supportive Relationships

Your ex-spouse receives your alimony every month — and has lived with a new partner for two years, splitting rent,...

Retirement and Alimony in Florida

For decades, Florida payors asked the same anxious question: “Do I have to work until I die to keep paying...

Alimony Modification and Termination in Florida

An alimony award is a snapshot of two financial lives at one moment — and lives move. Jobs end, health...

Lump Sum Alimony in Florida

Most alimony arrives as a monthly obligation stretching years into the future — a recurring tie between people trying to...

Temporary Alimony in Florida: Support While the Divorce Is Pending

Divorce takes months; the electric bill arrives monthly. Temporary alimony — support paid while the case is pending — is...

Rehabilitative Alimony in Florida

Of Florida’s alimony forms, rehabilitative alimony is the one with a job to do: fund a spouse’s route back to...

Bridge-the-Gap Alimony in Florida

Some spouses do not need years of support — they need a runway: first and last month’s rent on a...

Durational Alimony in Florida After the 2023 Reform

When Florida abolished permanent alimony in 2023, durational alimony inherited the throne — it is now the longest-running support Florida...

Florida Child Support FAQs: Straight Answers

The child support questions Brevard County parents actually ask — answered plainly under current Florida law by The Law Office...

Child Support Modification After Job Loss in Florida

The layoff email arrives on a Tuesday. The child support payment is due Friday. What you do in the next...

Military Child Support in Florida: BAH, BAS & Deployment

Military pay is a different animal — a base salary wrapped in allowances, special pays, and tax treatments that civilian...

Child Support With 50/50 Custody in Florida

Florida’s 2023 shift to a presumption of equal time-sharing spawned a persistent myth on its heels: that 50/50 custody means...

High-Income Child Support in Florida

Florida’s child support schedule has a top line: combined monthly net income of $10,000. Above it, the guidelines stop prescribing...

College Costs & Support for Adult Disabled Children in Florida

Two questions arrive in our Melbourne office with equal frequency and opposite emotions: “Can I make my ex help with...

Child Support Arrears and Interest in Florida

Unpaid child support does not fade, forgive itself, or expire — it compounds. In Florida, every missed payment becomes an...

Health Insurance, Daycare & Medical Add-Ons in Florida Child Support

The guidelines schedule sets the base child support number — then real life adds its line items: the health insurance...

Bonuses, Overtime & Variable Pay in Florida Child Support

Base salary is the easy part of a Florida child support calculation. The fights start with everything stacked on top:...

Child Support for Self-Employed Parents in Florida

For W-2 employees, child support income is a pay stub. For the self-employed — contractors, salon owners, charter captains, consultants,...

Imputed Income and Child Support in Florida

Quit your job, and your child support does not go down — it gets calculated on the job you quit....

Child Support Enforcement in Florida

A child support order that is not paid is a promise the law intends to keep anyway. Florida operates one...

Retroactive Child Support in Florida

Child support does not begin when a judge signs an order — legally, the obligation to support your child never...

Florida Child Custody & Parenting Plan FAQs

These are the questions Brevard County parents actually ask about custody, parenting plans, and time-sharing — answered plainly under current...

Child Custody Exchanges in Florida: Logistics, Conduct & Fixes

Twice a week, every week, for a decade or more — no parenting plan provision gets used more than the...

International Child Custody and the Hague Convention in Florida

When a custody dispute crosses an international border, the ordinary rules of family court meet a different legal universe —...

Parenting During Deployment: Florida Military Custody Rights

For military parents on the Space Coast, deployment is not a hypothetical — it is a rotation on a calendar....

Co-Parenting Apps, Habits & Parallel Parenting in Florida

The best co-parenting advice rarely comes from statutes. It comes from watching a thousand families either build workable two-household childhoods...

Best Interests of the Child in Florida: The 20 Factors

Every Florida custody decision — initial parenting plans, modifications, relocations, disputes over schools and doctors — runs through a single...

Contempt for Time-Sharing Violations in Florida

Contempt is the courtroom word for a simple idea: court orders are not optional. When a parent willfully violates the...

Enforcing a Parenting Plan in Florida

A parenting plan is a court order — but orders do not enforce themselves. When a co-parent withholds weekends, ignores...

Right of First Refusal in Florida Parenting Plans

Your co-parent has a work trip during their weekend. Do the kids go to a babysitter — or to you?...

Parental Alienation in Florida Custody Cases

A child who adored both parents suddenly refuses one of them — no visits, no calls, echoing accusations in adult...

False Abuse Allegations in Florida Custody Cases

A false abuse allegation in a custody case is a double crime against the truth: it endangers the accused parent’s...

Mental Health and Child Custody in Florida

Roughly one in five adults manages a mental health condition — which means mental health appears in custody cases constantly,...

Substance Abuse and Child Custody in Florida

Substance abuse appears in Florida custody cases two ways: as a genuine danger children need protection from, and as an...

Domestic Violence and Child Custody in Florida

Domestic violence changes everything in a Florida custody case — the presumptions, the burdens, the schedule, sometimes the safety architecture...

Can a Child Choose Which Parent to Live With in Florida?

“My daughter is thirteen and wants to live with me — when does she get to decide?” It may be...

Medical Decision Disputes Between Divorced Parents in Florida

A child needs braces. One parent wants the ADHD evaluation; the other calls it labeling. A therapist recommends counseling and...

School Choice Disputes Between Divorced Parents in Florida

Few co-parenting disputes carry stakes like school choice — the decision compounds through a childhood, and Brevard County’s mix of...

Parenting Coordinators in Florida High-Conflict Cases

Some co-parents can share a child but not a conversation. For families where every exchange sparks a dispute and every...

Guardian ad Litem in Florida Custody Cases

In high-conflict custody cases, the judge has a problem: two parents telling opposite stories about the same child, and a...

Third-Party Custody in Florida: Rights of Non-Parent Caregivers

Sometimes the adult raising a child is not a parent at all — a grandparent, an aunt, a stepparent, a...

Grandparent Visitation Rights in Florida

Few calls to our Melbourne office carry more heartbreak than the grandparent who has been cut off from grandchildren they...

Supervised Visitation in Florida

Supervised visitation sits at a hard intersection: Florida’s conviction that children benefit from relationships with both parents, and its refusal...

Virtual Visitation in Florida: Video Calls as Time-Sharing

A parent on a deployment, a work rotation, or the far end of a court-approved relocation used to simply miss...

Long-Distance Parenting in Florida

Some families end up parenting across hundreds or thousands of miles — a job transfer, a military PCS, a court-approved...

Holiday Time-Sharing in Florida: Schedules That Work

Ask any family lawyer when the phone rings most, and the answer is the same: mid-December, the week before Thanksgiving,...

Temporary Custody in Florida: Interim Orders & Chapter 751

Between the day a family case is filed and the day it ends, months pass — and children need a...

Emergency Custody in Florida: When It Cannot Wait

When a child is in genuine danger, the ordinary pace of family court — motions, hearings weeks out, mediation —...

Ultimate Decision-Making Authority in Florida Custody

Some divorced parents can decide everything together. Some can decide almost everything together — except the one subject that deadlocks...

Sole Parental Responsibility in Florida

Sole parental responsibility is Florida family law’s strong medicine: one parent makes every major decision for the child — school,...

Shared Parental Responsibility in Florida

Florida’s default answer to “who decides for the children after divorce?” is: both parents, together. That is shared parental responsibility...

Equal Time-Sharing in Florida: The 50/50 Presumption

In 2023, Florida changed the starting line of every custody case. House Bill 1301 wrote into § 61.13 a rebuttable...

Parenting Plans in Florida: The Complete Guide

In Florida, no document matters more to a divorcing or separating parent than the parenting plan. It is not a...

Interrogatories and Requests to Produce in Florida Divorce

Two workhorses of divorce discovery arrive together in most contested Florida cases: interrogatories (written questions you must answer under oath)...

Depositions in a Florida Divorce: What to Expect

Few moments in a divorce are as intimidating as sitting across a conference table from your spouse’s lawyer, under oath,...

Discovery in a Florida Divorce: How the Facts Get Found

Discovery is the investigation phase of a contested divorce — the formal process for getting the facts, documents, and sworn...

Mandatory Disclosure in Florida Divorce: Rule 12.285

Within 45 days of a Florida divorce being served, both spouses owe each other a defined stack of financial documents...

Financial Affidavits in Florida Divorce

Of all the paperwork in a Florida divorce, none works harder than the financial affidavit. Judges use it to set...

Hidden Assets in a Florida Divorce: Finding Concealed Money

Every divorce lawyer hears the same worry, usually in the first meeting: “I think my spouse is hiding money.” Sometimes...

Divorce After Retirement in Florida

Divorcing after the paychecks have stopped is its own discipline. There is no salary to divide, no career runway to...

Bankruptcy and Divorce in Florida: Which Comes First?

Financial collapse and marital collapse travel together more often than either travels alone. When bankruptcy and divorce arrive in the...

Divorce During Pregnancy in Florida

Yes, you can file for divorce while pregnant in Florida — a common and stubborn myth says otherwise. But pregnancy...

Divorce After Infidelity in Florida: What an Affair Really Changes

Discovering an affair changes how a marriage ends — but maybe not in the ways you expect from television. Florida...

How Much Does a Divorce Cost in Florida?

Nobody calls a divorce lawyer to hear “it depends” — but on cost, most websites tell you nothing at all....

Florida Divorce FAQs: Real Questions, Straight Answers

These are the questions Brevard County residents actually ask us about divorce — in consultations, on the phone, and at...

Florida Divorce Checklist: What to Gather and Do

The clients who move through divorce fastest and cheapest have one thing in common: they showed up organized. This checklist...

Divorce Trial in Florida: What to Expect

Most Florida divorces settle. But when settlement fails — on everything or on a single stubborn issue — the case...

Temporary Relief in Florida Divorce: Support, the Home & Fees

A Florida divorce takes months. The mortgage is due in weeks. Who pays it? Who stays in the house? Where...

Default Divorce in Florida

When a spouse is served with divorce papers and simply never responds, Florida law lets the case move forward without...

Served With Divorce Papers in Florida? How to Respond

A process server just handed you divorce papers. Whatever you are feeling right now, one fact controls what happens next:...

How to File for Divorce in Florida

Filing for divorce is a legal act with immediate consequences — it starts deadlines, triggers automatic financial rules, and frames...

Divorce Without Children in Florida

Divorcing without minor children removes the hardest part of most divorces — but it doesn’t make the process automatic, and...

Divorce With Children in Florida

When children are involved, divorce stops being a two-person process. Florida law treats every dissolution with minor children differently —...

Gray Divorce: Divorce After 50 in Florida

Divorce after 50 — often called “gray divorce” — is the one segment of American divorce that keeps growing. On...

Physician Divorce in Florida

Divorce is complicated for everyone. For physicians, dentists, and other medical professionals, it is complicated in specific, predictable ways: a...

Business Owner Divorce in Florida

When you own a business, divorce threatens more than your marriage — it threatens the company you built, your employees,...

High Net Worth Divorce in Florida

When a marriage involves significant wealth — a business, professional practice, real estate portfolio, executive compensation, or substantial retirement assets...

How Long Does a Divorce Take in Florida? A Realistic Timeline

“How long will this take?” is usually the first question we hear in a divorce consultation — right after “what...

Florida Divorce Residency Requirements

Before a Florida court can grant your divorce, at least one spouse must satisfy Florida’s residency requirement — six months...

Grounds for Divorce in Florida

Florida is a pure no-fault divorce state. You do not need to prove adultery, abandonment, or cruelty to end your...

Simplified Dissolution of Marriage in Florida

Florida offers a streamlined divorce process called simplified dissolution of marriage — the fastest and least expensive way to end...

Understanding Alimony in Florida

Understanding Alimony in Florida: How Recent Changes May Impact Your Case Divorce is a challenging process, and one of the...

Business Mediation

BUSINESS MEDIATION Every day, businesses conduct hundreds of transactions with customers, clients, vendors, and others. A dispute can disrupt the...

Modification of Child Support

Every child in Florida has the right to have frequent and ongoing contact with both parents. Florida law has no...

Modification of Child Custody

Life is constantly changing, and what worked for your family at the time of your divorce or paternity case may...

Prenuptial Agreements

PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENTS & POSTNUPTIAL AGREEMENTS Prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements may be a factor in divorces. Where, before they get...

Paternity

Establishing paternity is a critical legal step that can have a profound and lasting impact on the lives of both...

Divorce Procedure

Navigating a divorce can be one of life’s most challenging experiences, filled with emotional turmoil and uncertainty. Understanding the procedural...

Retirement Pension Division Divorce

For many couples, retirement accounts and pensions are among their most significant marital assets. When a marriage ends, the division...

Marital Settlement & Agreements

A Marital Settlement Agreement, often referred to as an MSA, is a legally binding contract that details the terms of...

Child Relocation

CHILD RELOCATION In Family Law one of the most challenging things is the relocation of a parent and a minor...

Contempt & Enforcement

A court order in a family law case, such as a divorce decree or a paternity judgment, is not a...

Child Custody & Visitation

CHILD CUSTODY AND VISITATION Laws related to child custody and visitation are complex. Trying to settle problems related to child custody...

Asset Debt Division

ASSET AND DEBT DIVISION – EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION Many in the state of Florida who are going through a divorce, or...

Spousal Support Alimony

Alimony, also known as spousal support, is a critical component of many Florida divorce cases, designed to provide financial assistance...

LGBTQ Divorce

LGBTQ – Same-Sex Divorce Are you and your LGBTQ same-sex spouse thinking about getting a divorce in Florida? It’s important...

Collaborative Divorce

What is Collaborative Divorce? Most people think of divorce as a heated argument in the courts between two parties who...

Contested Divorce

HOW TO FILE FOR DIVORCE IN FLORIDA It may be an emotional, unpleasant, and painful period for you and your...

Name Change

NAME CHANGE Although most people never think about changing their legal name, certain circumstances occur in which adults may choose...

Appeals

APPEALS In Florida, divorce appeals can be highly technical and challenging. Divorce court orders will not always be fair or equitable. The...

Mediation

MEDIATION The importance of using mediation as part of the litigation process has been acknowledged by the courts that have made...

Uncontested Divorce

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Criminal Law

Weapons and Firearm Charges

WEAPONS AND FIREARM CHARGES All State and Federal laws specify that there should be no infringement of the people’s right...

Out of Town Defendants

Being charged with a crime is a stressful and frightening experience, but when you live out of state, the logistical...

Florida Criminal Defense Lawyer

Facing a criminal charge in Florida can be a daunting and life-altering experience. The complexities of the legal system, combined...

White Collar Crimes

WHITE COLLAR CRIMES If you are a businessman or elected official, your image may be damaged by the allegation of...

Violent Crimes

VIOLENT CRIMES Violent crimes can be serious. If you’ve been accused in Florida of a violent crime, your reputation, your...

Traffic Violations and Offenses

TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS AND OFFENSES Traffic offenses are treated as a minor violation by most individuals. They offer to pay the...

Juvenile Crimes

JUVENILE CRIMES It can be a totally depressing and emotional experience when a parent receives a phone call that his...

Assault and Battery

ASSAULT AND BATTERY If you’ve been accused of assault or battery, it can have severe consequences. You may experience anxiety...

Violation of Probation

VIOLATION OF PROBATION At The Law Office of John Vernon Moore, P.A. we believe that everyone is entitled to high-quality...

Child Abuse

CHILD ABUSE Charges of criminal child abuse have the potential to rip apart a family. These charges entail the careful...

Theft Crimes

THEFT CRIMES The category of theft crime is one of the largest and broadest types in the area of criminal...

Gun Crimes

As a consequence of being convicted of a gun or weapon charge under Florida law, you can face serious financial...

Burglary

Just because you’ve been arrested or charged with a burglary, that doesn’t mean you’re to be convicted. An arrest isn’t...

Domestic Violence

Domestic violence cases must be handled very carefully by an experienced domestic violence attorney in Florida, due to Florida’s minimum...

Drug Crimes & Drug Charges

DRUG CRIMES AND DRUG CHARGES In Florida being charged with a drug crime is a serious issue, as the narcotics...

DUI Lawyers

A charge of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) in Florida can have immediate and severe consequences, threatening your freedom, your...

Sex Crimes

SEX CRIMES For years the attorneys at the Law Office of John Vernon Moore, P.A, have defended individuals in Melbourne...

Military Divorces

Military Family Law FAQs

Military family law layers federal statutes, service regulations, and DFAS bureaucracy over ordinary Florida divorce — and generates a distinctive...

Military Spouse Rights in Florida Divorce

Military spouses serve too — through the moves that reset careers, the deployments managed alone, the years of holding a...

Security Clearances & Divorce in Florida

On the Space Coast, a security clearance is often the family’s most valuable financial asset — the credential behind the...

Space Force Divorce: Guardians & Patrick SFB

Brevard County is home to the newest branch of the armed forces in a way few places are: Patrick Space...

Dual-Military Divorce in Florida

When both spouses wear the uniform, divorce doubles everything: two sets of orders that may point in opposite directions, two...

TRICARE After Divorce: The 20/20/20 Rule

For a military spouse, health coverage may be the benefit whose loss hurts most in divorce. TRICARE has covered the...

VA Disability & Divorce in Florida

No topic in military divorce generates more confusion — or more litigation — than VA disability compensation. It is simultaneously...

The Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) in Divorce

A former spouse’s share of military retired pay has a structural weakness almost no one mentions until it is too...

DFAS Garnishment & Military Pay Collection

Court orders are promises the legal system makes; collection is how it keeps them. In military cases, collection runs through...

PCS Orders & Child Custody in Florida

Permanent Change of Station orders arrive with a report date and no interest in your parenting plan. For divorced and...

BAH, BAS & Military Pay in Support Calculations

Ask a servicemember their income and they will often quote base pay. Ask DFAS and you get a different number....

Military Pension Division in Florida Divorce

The military pension is often the most valuable asset in a military divorce — worth more over a lifetime than...

The SCRA in Florida Divorce Cases

Congress long ago decided that no one should lose a lawsuit because they were busy defending the country. The Servicemembers...

The Military Divorce Process in Florida

A military divorce is a civilian divorce with a second legal system layered on top. Florida law still governs the...

Estate Planning & Probate

Florida Probate Avoidance

FLORIDA PROBATE AVOIDANCE Florida probate has always been a costly, bureaucratic and time-consuming process. To handle such a complicated process,...

Probate and Trust Administration

PROBATE AND TRUST ADMINISTRATION We realize that the loss of a loved one is a painful aspect of the life...

Probate Law and Process

PROBATE LAW AND PROCESS When a loved one dies, members of the family of the deceased will have to go...

Elder Law

ELDER LAW Elder Law is a unique practice area that focuses on the needs of the elderly, the handicapped, and...

Power of Attorney

POWER OF ATTORNEY So, several people are shocked to hear that, in the case of an emergency, they are powerless...

Healthcare Surrogate

HEALTHCARE SURROGATE A Health Care Surrogate Designation is useful in a situation for a person, should they become ill, a...

Will Contest

WILL CONTEST A will is intended to ensure that the properties and assets of the creator are dispersed according to his or...

Irrevocable Trusts

IRREVOCABLE TRUSTS Irrevocable trusts are an integral component of estate planning, protection of properties, and planning for tax avoidance. Irrevocable...

Revocable Living Trusts

REVOCABLE LIVING TRUSTS Revocable living trusts in Florida are a common method for estate planning that can be used to decide...

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