High-Net-Worth Divorce · Orlando
Protect what you've built. Leave with your future intact.
When a divorce puts a company, a portfolio, or a reputation on the line, the outcome isn't decided by who argues loudest. It's decided by preparation, command of the financial facts, and the credible willingness to try the case. That is the entire practice here.
Private from the first call. Your inquiry is never shared.
The Stakes
A high-asset divorce isn't only a legal case.
It's a financial event.
Most family lawyers are comfortable with parenting plans and paperwork. Far fewer can read a balance sheet, challenge a business valuation, or trace money that someone worked hard to make disappear. In a seven-figure marital estate, that difference is measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars — sometimes more.
Your business
Valued wrong, a company you spent a decade building becomes a settlement casualty — or gets carved up in a way that starves it. Valuation method, timing, and marital-vs-non-marital characterization decide everything.
Your compensation
Unvested RSUs, options, bonuses, and deferred comp are the most commonly mishandled assets in Florida divorces. What gets overlooked doesn't come back later.
Your privacy
Litigation is public record. For a professional with a reputation — a physician, an executive, a founder — how a case is run matters almost as much as how it ends.
"The most expensive mistake in a high-asset divorce is hiring for comfort instead of command."
The Mack Law Method
A quieter, smarter way through.
One attorney, deliberately few cases, and a discipline built in courtrooms and combat aircraft: know the numbers cold, prepare as if trial is certain, and negotiate from strength — never from fear.
Financial command
Before law, Michael earned a business degree and securities licenses and worked in investment banking. We work fluently with valuations, forensic accountants, and complex assets — and we find what others miss.
Trial-tested resolve
A former prosecutor who has tried cases up to felonies punishable by life, Michael prepares every matter for trial. Opposing counsel can tell the difference — and settlements price it in.
Discretion & control
Confidential from the first call. A clear plan, calm guidance, and a steady hand on the decisions that will shape your family and your balance sheet for decades.
Confidential consultation
We learn your situation, your assets, and your goals — privately, and without obligation.
Strategy & financial mapping
We build the full financial picture of the marital estate and a plan around exactly what you need to protect.
Decisive execution
We negotiate from strength, prepared to try the case. You stay informed and in control at every decision point.
Practice Areas
Three focused practices. One standard of work.
High-Net-Worth & Complex Divorce
Business interests & valuations · complex equitable distribution · executive & equity compensation · hidden-asset tracing · alimony under the 2023 reform · prenuptial & postnuptial agreements · custody & time-sharing.
Explore this practice →Business Litigation
Shareholder & partnership disputes · breach of contract · business torts & fraud · non-compete & trade secrets · business divorce, dissolution & buyouts · breach of fiduciary duty.
Explore this practice →Business Advisory
Outside general counsel · contract drafting & negotiation · entity formation & governance · employment & HR · buying & selling a business · risk & dispute prevention.
Explore this practice →Proof
The record speaks quietly. Like we do.
"Superb" — Avvo's highest rating, with 179 five-star client reviews. Clients consistently describe the same things:
Protecting a closely-held company
Structuring the valuation and division of a marital estate built around an operating business — so the company survives the divorce intact.
Dividing complex compensation
Accounting for equity awards, deferred compensation, and multiple properties in a high-income dissolution.
Resolving an owner dispute
Representing an owner in a partnership breakdown — pursuing a fair buyout while keeping the business operating.
Representative illustrations of the firm's areas of focus, generalized to protect client confidentiality. Not a guarantee of any particular result; every case is different, and prior outcomes do not predict a similar outcome in your matter.
Meet Michael T. Mackhanlall
Seasoned against opponents with unlimited resources.
Michael joined the Air Force after 9/11 and flew combat search-and-rescue and counter-terrorism missions as an airborne radio operator — deploying voluntarily to Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Africa, and earning 2005 Airman of the Year. He came home, earned a business degree and securities licenses, and worked for an investment bank before law school.
After graduating in the top ten percent of his class, he prosecuted cases for the State — learning trial skills against hostile witnesses and experts — then defended major auto and tire manufacturers at a top civil trial firm, where he saw firsthand how unlimited money and resources get used against ordinary people. He's spent his career since making sure his clients are never on the losing side of that equation.
In the family-law arena, Michael has regularly stood up against the most expensive firms in town — and won. In ten years of practice he has represented thousands of Central Floridians, recovering over one million dollars in civil matters other firms declined.
Frequently Asked
Common questions, answered plainly.
Yes. We focus on high-net-worth and complex divorce for business owners, executives, physicians, and professionals across Orange, Seminole, and Osceola counties — including matters involving closely-held businesses, equity compensation, real estate, and retirement assets.
Usually the presence of significant or hard-to-value assets — a business or professional practice, executive or equity compensation, multiple properties, retirement and deferred accounts, or concerns about hidden assets — where command of the financial facts decides the outcome.
Yes. We work with valuation experts and forensic accountants to value, characterize, and divide business interests so the company can keep operating — and we prepare every matter for trial.
Florida eliminated permanent alimony in 2023. Courts now award bridge-the-gap, rehabilitative, or durational alimony, with durational awards generally capped at the lesser of the recipient's need or 35% of the difference in the parties' net incomes. For high earners, this reshapes both exposure and strategy.
A private, no-pressure conversation about your situation, your assets, and your goals — with a clear read of your options and the road ahead. We respond promptly, usually the same business day.
Confidential Consultation
The smartest hour you'll spend this year.
Before you make a single move — before you say anything to your spouse, your partner, or their lawyer — spend one private hour understanding your position, your exposure, and your options. People who plan early keep more of what they built. It's that simple.
By phone
(407) 749-1034Office
1607 Woodward St, Suite 12
Orlando, FL 32803
What to expect
- A private, no-pressure conversation about your matter
- A clear sense of your options and the road ahead
- A prompt response — usually the same business day