Legal Question in Family Law in Florida

Re: credit cards

Unless you had a temporary agreement pending final judgment, I doubt that you will be able to avoid liability for half of the charges since it is still considered marital debt. I suggest you ask the court for a temporary order stating that any debt incurred from date of separation on is non-marital debt.

Re: credit cards

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Yes. You can report it stolen to the credit card company and the police. They will probably question why you did not report it missing sooner. All credit card companies require that a police report be filed before they will even consider that charges by a family member were not authorized. Otherwise, they would be faced with an enormous amount of debt that would not get paid with nobody to seek payment from.

Scott R. Jay, Esq.