Boca Raton Divorce Lawyer

GFK Roper recently conducted a poll of 1,500 divorced Americans to determine who people were most likely to turn to for support during their divorce.

The results of the study showed that people are 60 percent more likely to turn to family or friends before professional or other advisors.  Of men polled, 26 percent said they turned to family first and 25 percent said they turned to friends first.  Among women, 45 percent said they turned to family first and 25 percent said they turned to friends first.  Overall, men were 19 percent more likely to turn to professionals for help than women.

7 percent of participants said they turned to professionals like lawyers or financial planners for help and another 7 percent said they turned to a religious or spiritual institution.  Five percent saw therapists and four percent went to divorce support groups.

If you or someone you know is in need of support or advice in their divorce, contact the South Florida divorce lawyers of Eric N. Klein & Associates, P.A. at 561-353-2800 to learn more about your rights.

A 38-year-old father,Samuel Lee Horton, of Greenville, South Carolina was arrested for violating a child custody order after FBI investigators found him hiding in Phuket, Thailand with his three-year old daughter.

Horton and his ex-wife have two children together.  After the divorce, his ex-wife gained complete custody of the children and Horton was granted visitation rights.  In May 2009, Horton told his ex-wife he was taking their 3-year old daughter to Disney World, but instead he ran away to Thailand where he lived with her for a year before investigators found him.  When investigators found him, Horton had a job and had enrolled his daughter in school in Phuket.

Horton was also charged with falsifying a document for forging his wife’s signature in order to obtain a passport for his daughter so they could leave the country.  Horton faces up to ten years in prison for the charges.

If you or someone you know is fighting for child custody rights, contact the Boca Raton child custody and visitation lawyers of Eric N. Klein & Associates, P.A. at 561-353-2800 to learn more about your rights.

Kelsey Grammer, 55, and his third wife Camille Donatacci, 41, announced their divorce this past July.  Now, Donatacci has demanded $71.5 million in the couple’s divorce filing.

Grammer, who stared in the hit series Frasier, recently made headlines after his 29-year old mistress found out she was pregnant with his child.  Sources said that Donatacci was devastated and humiliated when she heard the news.

Donatacci did not sign a prenuptial agreement with Grammer.  Reports did not indicate what would happen with the couple’s shared $56 million television production company, Grammnet.  If Donatacci is awarded the $71.5 million, it will be over half of Grammer’s $119 million fortune.

If you or someone you know is considering signing a prenuptial agreement, contact the Boca Raton prenuptial attorneys of Eric N. Klein & Associates, P.A. at 561-353-2800 to learn more about your rights.

Zach Walsh, an author and professor at the University of British Columbia, recently conducted a study showing that men and women generally fit into the same three subcategories of domestic violence perpetrators.  The study examined 567 civil psychiatric patients for signs of normal personality characteristics, mentally ill characteristics, and psychopathic characteristics.  138 women and 93 men in the study had histories of domestic violence.

Walsh believes that the results show both men and women can fit into three groups of domestic violence perpetrators: antisocial perpetrators exhibit high levels of psychopathic characteristics and are likely to be violent outside of the relationship, dysphoric perpetrators show signs of mental illness like depression and anxiety, and low pathology perpetrators have normal personality characteristics and are not likely to be violent outside of the relationship.  Walsh stated, “These new findings are among the first to highlight similarities between subtypes of domestically violent men and women”.

If your or someone you know has been the victim of domestic violence, contact the Boca Raton domestic violence and restraining order lawyers of Eric N. Klein & Associates, P.A. at 561-353-2800 to learn more about your rights.

The 44-year old Two And A Half Men actor Charlie Sheen plead guilty to a misdemeanor third-degree assault earlier this week in a Colorado court.  Sheen agreed to plea guilty after coming to a plea bargain that included dropped two more serious charges of criminal mischief misdemeanor and felony menacing.  From the bargain, Sheen was able to avoid jail time by agreeing to spend 30 days in a rehabilitation center, complete 36 hours of domestic violence and anger management counseling, and complete 30 days of probation.

The charges against Sheen were the result of a Christmas day attack on his wife, Brooke Mueller, last year in Aspen, Colorado.  This was not the first time Sheen had found himself in court facing charges of domestic assault.  In 1996, Sheen was charged in the attack of his girlfriend, to which he plead no contest and served two years of probation.

If you or someone you love has been the victim of domestic violence, contact the Boca Raton domestic violence and restraining order lawyers of Eric N. Klein & Associates, P.A. at 561-353-2800 to learn more about your rights.