Divorce and family disputes decide two things at once: your financial future and your children's stability. Mack Law, P.A. approaches both with the same discipline — command of the financial facts, preparation as if trial is certain, and calm, direct guidance at every decision point. Attorney Michael Mackhanlall thrives in the courtroom, keeps cases on track, and will not settle for less than what you are entitled to under the law.
How we can help
High-Net-Worth Divorce
Business valuation, goodwill, executive compensation, forensic accounting, and privacy — for seven-figure estates.
Divorce
Contested, uncontested, complex, and high-net-worth dissolution — the full PEACE framework, handled with financial fluency.
Osceola County Divorce
Kissimmee, St. Cloud, Celebration, and Poinciana — Ninth Circuit practice at the Osceola courthouse.
Orange County Divorce
Orlando, Winter Garden, Windermere, Apopka, and Lake Nona — home-circuit practice minutes from the Orange County Courthouse.
Seminole County Divorce
Lake Mary, Sanford, Oviedo, Altamonte Springs, and Heathrow — Eighteenth Circuit practice at the Sanford courthouse.
Lake County Divorce
Clermont, Tavares, Mount Dora, Leesburg, and Montverde — Fifth Circuit practice at the Tavares courthouse.
Winter Park Divorce
Legacy wealth, trusts, lakefront homes, and family businesses — high-asset divorce handled discreetly.
Windermere Divorce
Isleworth, Keene’s Pointe, and the Butler Chain — contract income, lakefront estates, and privacy behind the gates.
Dr. Phillips Divorce
Bay Hill and Restaurant Row — restaurant and franchise owners, attractions executives, and physicians.
Child Relocation
The 50-mile rule: § 61.13001 petitions, 20-day objections, and the expedited hearings that decide moves.
Divorce Mediation
Where most Florida divorces actually resolve — confidentiality, costs, and the preparation that wins the room.
Paternity
Establishing paternity under Chapter 742 — DNA testing, parenting plans, and support, from either side of the case.
Child Time-Sharing (Custody)
Parenting plans under Florida's 2023 equal time-sharing presumption — building the evidence that protects your children.
Child Support
Guideline calculations, hidden-income disputes, administrative vs. court cases, and enforcement.
Alimony
Exposure and entitlement under Florida's 2023 alimony reform — durational caps, need and ability to pay.
Imputation of Income
Vocational evaluations, historical earnings, and earning-capacity fights that decide the support numbers.
Divorce for Business Owners
Protecting the company through the case — valuation, status quo, partners, and buyouts that cash flow survives.
Physician & Professional Divorce
Practice valuation, goodwill, call-schedule parenting plans, student debt, and licensure-aware discretion.
Property Division
Equitable distribution, marital vs. nonmarital characterization, businesses, and commingling disputes.
401(k), IRA & Stock Division
QDROs handled in-house, transfers incident to divorce, and the tax traps that follow careless drafting.
Trusts & Asset Protection
What actually holds when a trust meets a Florida divorce — third-party vs. self-settled, fraudulent transfers, and trust income in support.
Prenuptial Agreements
Your rules instead of Florida’s defaults — protecting businesses, inheritances, and future earnings under § 61.079, drafted to survive challenge.
Postnuptial Agreements
Already married? Spouses can still contract — with the full disclosure and careful drafting Florida courts demand of postnups.
Modification & Enforcement
Changing orders when life changes — and contempt actions when the other side won't comply.
Injunctions
Petitioning for — and defending against — domestic violence, stalking, repeat, sexual, and dating violence injunctions.
Military Divorce
From a USAF combat veteran: jurisdiction, military pensions, long-distance parenting plans, and career-protecting discretion.
Adoption
Stepparent, relative, second-parent, LGBT, contested, and adult adoptions across Central Florida.
Donor Law & Agreements
Sperm/egg donor agreements protecting intended parents and donors under § 742.14, Florida Statutes.
Q&A Library
28 real questions answered by Michael — custody, support, property, paternity, adoption — updated to current law.
Family-Law Insights
Plain-English guides: what divorce costs, the 50/50 presumptions, and the 2023 alimony framework.
Florida family-law questions, answered
A few of the questions we are asked most often. These are adapted from the 1,200+ questions Michael has answered publicly on Avvo — there are more in the Q&A library.
Six months. One spouse must have resided in Florida for six months before the petition is filed, and that residency has to be proven — usually by a Florida driver’s license, voter registration, or the testimony of a corroborating witness. Where you were married is irrelevant; Florida can dissolve a marriage performed anywhere, including abroad, once the residency requirement is met. More on the sequence in the divorce process.
It depends which 50/50 you mean, and people conflate two different rules. For property, Florida starts from the premise that marital assets and debts are divided equally, but a court can divide them unequally on statutory grounds. For time-sharing, a separate 2023 change created a rebuttable presumption that equal time is in a child’s best interests — a starting point, not a guarantee, and rebuttable on the evidence.
No. Permanent alimony was eliminated effective July 1, 2023. What remains is temporary, bridge-the-gap, rehabilitative, and durational alimony — the last being the longest-running form, capped at 50/60/75% of the length of the marriage by category and at 35% of the difference in the parties’ net incomes. See our alimony page for how the four forms fit together.
Often, yes. Section 61.16 exists for exactly this situation: where one spouse has the need and the other has the ability to pay, a court can order interim and final fee contributions so that the better-resourced spouse cannot simply outspend the other into a bad settlement. Fee motions are also a genuine pressure point in cases with a large income disparity.
Yes — because the plan is not for now, it is for the first day you disagree. Without a court order neither parent has enforceable rights over schedules, school choice, travel, or medical decisions, and the parent holding the child that week effectively decides. Florida requires a parenting plan in any case involving minor children. See time-sharing and custody.
First the court decides how much of it is marital — a company founded before the marriage can still have marital value if it appreciated through your efforts or was funded with marital money. Then it is valued, and that is where these cases are won or lost: enterprise versus personal goodwill, the valuation date, and normalized earnings. See divorce for business owners, valuing a business, and our guide to what happens to your business in a Florida divorce.
Why clients choose Mack Law
Before law school, Michael earned a business degree, held securities licenses, and worked in investment banking; he then tried cases as a prosecutor. That combination — financial command plus trial-tested resolve — is rare in family law, and it is precisely what complex divorces, contested parenting plans, and support disputes reward. The firm keeps its caseload deliberately small: when you call, you get your lawyer, not a hand-off.
Talk it through — confidentially.
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