Plain-language guides to everyday legal questions.
Evergreen guides that explain how common legal rules work, with links to official sources.
Form 12.901(a) is the joint petition a married couple signs together to ask a Florida court for a simplified dissolution of marriage. This guide explains the conditions the official instructions list, what the form asks, and what each spouse does.
How Florida's security deposit law, section 83.49, handles the deposit after a rental ends — the landlord's 15-day and 30-day deadlines, the tenant's 15 days to object, and why a forwarding address matters. Includes a neutral tenant letter.
What a Florida landlord has to maintain under section 83.51, a neutral everyday repair request letter, and how that letter differs from the formal 7-day notices in sections 83.56(1) and 83.60.
Plain-English meanings of about forty words people meet in Florida family law and landlord-tenant matters, from petitioner and summons to security deposit and court registry, with the official source for each legal rule.
What a Florida landlord's "notice of intention to impose a claim" on a security deposit is, the wording section 83.49(3) gives for it, how and when it must be sent, and the tenant's 15 days to object.
Form 12.901(b)(1) is the Florida Supreme Court approved petition that starts a divorce when the spouses have a minor or dependent child together, or one spouse is pregnant. This guide walks through each part of the form and the papers the official instructions say go with it.
Form 12.902(b) is the short Family Law Financial Affidavit, a sworn list of your monthly income, expenses, property, and debts. This guide explains who the official instructions say uses it, what each section asks, and what papers to gather first.
Form 12.902(c) is the long Family Law Financial Affidavit, a sworn, detailed statement of income, monthly expenses, property, and debts. This guide explains who the official instructions say uses it, what each section asks, and what records to gather first.
What the official Florida family law form instructions say to have filed, sent, and ready before the final hearing in an uncontested or simplified dissolution of marriage.
The general order of the official Florida divorce forms, from the petition through service, the answer, financial disclosure, parenting plan forms, and the final hearing, as the Florida courts' own instructions describe it.
How either a landlord or a tenant ends a month-to-month residential tenancy in Florida under section 83.57(3) — at least 30 days' written notice before the end of a monthly period — with the other tenancy periods and a neutral notice template.
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