Family Law

• Divorce
  Flat Fees: This is usually an option if the attorney handles large volumes of a particular kind of case, allowing the attorney to drive the cases through the use of forms and standardized practices. These are usually relatively simple cases like uncontested divorces, evictions, or foreclosures.
• Child Support
  Timesharing/Parental Responsibility/Child Custody & Support: Court orders and settlement agreements involving these issues usually are included in the larger divorce case, but may be revisited as conditions change. For instance, child support may be altered after the non-custodial parent’s financial situation changes.
• Child Custody and Visitation
  One of the most common things that happens during a divorce when there are minor children is parental alienation. Under Florida law, anything intentionally said or done to hurt a child’s relationship with the other parent can be considered parental alienation. Although parental alienation is not a crime and will not usually result in criminal penalties in Florida, it can affect a family court’s decision regarding child custody.
• Adoption
• Paternity
• Premarital Agreement
  Prenuptial Agreement: An agreement made between a man and a woman before marrying in which they give up future rights to each other’s property in the event of a divorce or death.
• Spousal Support
  Divorce: Each partner hires their own attorney, who will help devise a settlement plan in order to avoid a trial. Divorce attorneys typically are skilled at dividing marital property, calculating spousal support, and proposing a plan for child custody, visitation, and support (if applicable).
• Legal Separation

Criminal Law

• DUI/DWI
  Common kinds of boating accidents include collisions with other boats, swimmers, or floating or nonmoving objects (such as a dock or a pier), falls from personal watercrafts (PWC) or falling overboard, and the boat capsizing, flooding, sinking, or catching fire. Common causes of boating accidents include drunk driving, boat operator inexperience, recklessness, negligence, speeding, driver inattention, defective boats, and malfunctioning personal watercrafts.
• Wrongful Death
  Dog bite injuries can range from mild bite marks to serious attack wounds, permanent disfigurement, scarring, and wrongful death. The medical costs to treat dog bite injuries can be very expensive—especially if a person has to undergo multiple operations, such as plastic surgery.
• Traffic Violations
  Unfortunately, not every truck driver takes this standard of care seriously enough and can cause serious injuries or death because of speeding, driver inattention, driver fatigue, driving longer than the amount of hours that truck drivers are legally allowed to be operating a truck, unsafe passing, failure to slow down or stop, and abrupt lane changes. Quite often, truck drivers are pressured by their employees to drive a greater number of hours than Federal law allows. This creates a scenario where truck drivers are operating this heavy machinery while sleep deprived.
• Sex Crimes
  Accidents on a cruise ship may include slip and fall accidents, accidents sustained while on island day tours, fire accidents, collisions with another ship or vessel, illnesses caused by cruise ship viruses, food poisoning, and sexual assault. The cruise ship should have a competent staff doctor who can provide you with proper medical care while you are onboard.
• Burglary
  Crimes that can be committed on a premise where security is inadequate include rape, burglary, muggings, homicide, physical assault, and sexual assault. Broken bones, sexual assault injuries, gunshot wounds, stab wounds, traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, slip and fall injuries, and wrongful death are just some of the many personal injuries that can occur on a premise because of inadequate security.
• Assault
• Homicide

Property Law

• Premises Liability
  At Lazarus & Lazarus, P.A., our Florida premises liability lawyers have successfully handled many cases for injury clients involving inadequate security, including cases where our clients were injured in crimes that were committed in nightclubs, apartments, senior homes, and shopping malls because the owners or persons in charge of a premise or business did not provide the required or necessary security. Our Ft. Lauderdale premises liability lawyers will do what we can to obtain your compensation for your injuries either by negotiating a settlement for you or filing a lawsuit against any negligent parties.
• Real Estate Transactions
• Property Damage
  Damages that can be brought in an animal or dog bite case can include current and future medical expenses, lost income, pain and suffering, property damage, and mental and emotional trauma.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  The Law Offices of Lazarus and Lazarus, P.A., is a Personal Injury and Family Law Firm that represents injured clients and families throughout the State of Florida.
• Medical Malpractice
  There is a two-year statute of limitations for filing a medical malpractice case in Florida. This means that an injured person (or the family or guardian of an injured or deceased person) has two years from the time that he or she found out (or should have found out) that a health care provider might have caused the injuries or death to file a medical malpractice lawsuit.
• Auto Accidents
• Dog Bites
  Children tend to be easy targets for dog attacks because of their smaller size and height. A child mauled in the face by a Pit Bull or a Rottweiler might have to wait several years until he or she is fully grown before undergoing any kind of plastic or reconstructive surgery. The sense of social alienation that can result may lead to permanent emotional and psychological scars that no surgeon can repair.
• Slip and Fall Injury

Finance Law

• Foreclosure