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She also represents business clients in administrative and regulatory matters.

Devon focuses her practice on divorce and complex asset division, helping clients navigate the financial and legal issues that arise when a marriage or relationship ends.

10/22/2026

I would like to say my favourite part of this job is the legal strategy. 🔍

It is actually that I am extremely nosy.

Give me a stack of financial statements and I will happily lose an afternoon in them. Where did that money go. Who is this Venmo to. Why does this account exist. Why did it start existing in March.

It is the closest thing to private investigator work that a law licence allows.

What I am usually chasing:

1. Money moving somewhere it has no business moving
2. A lifestyle that does not match the reported income
3. Accounts that appeared at a suspiciously convenient moment
4. Transfers that only make sense if somebody was planning ahead

The part I genuinely find fascinating is how much the finances reveal about the person. How someone handles money says an enormous amount about how they think and how they live.

Because at the end of it, in front of a mediator or a judge, the finances are telling a story.

My job is to make sure it is the true one.

10/21/2026

The thing people distrust most about hiring a lawyer is the bill. 🧾

Honestly, that distrust is earned. Plenty of firms make it deliberately hard to follow.

Here is exactly how mine works, so there is nothing to wonder about:

1. You pay a fee upfront that sits in my trust account
2. Every hour I work gets billed against money you have already paid
3. I send a bill roughly twice a month, around the 15th and the 30th
4. Each line says what I did, how long it took and what it cost
5. Each month we top the trust account back up

That means you are never waiting on a surprise invoice, and you can watch the case and the cost move together in real time.

You should be able to see where your money is going in a divorce. That should be the floor, not a selling point.

10/19/2026

Most divorce cases in Florida never reach a judge. They end in a conference room or on Zoom. 🤝

Mediation is mandatory in most cases here, and it is the single most misunderstood step in the process.

The mediator is not a judge. They cannot order anybody to do anything. Their entire job is to help two sides find a compromise they can both live with.

Why it usually works by the time you get there:

1. Discovery is done, so both sides have seen the real financial picture
2. Everyone knows what the other party is actually asking for
3. The guessing is over, which is what most of the fighting was about
4. Both sides can see what trial would cost them from here

That last point does a lot of quiet work. People negotiate very differently once the alternative has a price tag on it.

Most cases end at mediation. That is not a failure to fight. That is usually the system working.

10/16/2026

I take fewer cases than I could. That is a choice, and it costs me money. 📉

It is also the reason I started my own practice.

I did not want to open my laptop to a hundred emails from clients who have been trying to reach me for a week and are, entirely reasonably, frustrated about it.

What I wanted instead:

1. To finish each day feeling good about the work I actually did
2. To know where every one of my cases stands without checking
3. To answer a client the same day rather than the same week
4. To have the room to think properly about a hard problem

You cannot do those things with an unlimited caseload. Something gives, and what usually gives is the client who is not currently on fire.

Turning work away is uncomfortable. Being unreachable when someone needs you is worse.

10/14/2026

Filing for divorce changes your legal status. It does not change your spouse. 🔁

This one surprises people more than it should.

A client will call, genuinely shocked, because the other side is not turning over documents. But he withheld financial information for the entire marriage. Nothing about a court filing rewired him.

The pattern shows up constantly:

1. He hid money during the marriage, so he hides it now
2. She sent cruel messages then, so she sends them now
3. He drank too much before, so he still does
4. She avoided hard conversations then, and she avoids them now

Divorce is not a personality intervention. Whoever they were on the inside of the marriage is who they will be on the way out of it, often more so, because now they feel cornered.

Plan around the person you actually married. Not the one you were hoping the paperwork would produce.

10/13/2026

People assume that if I am friendly with the lawyer on the other side, I will go easy. ⚔️

It works the other way around.

When I respect opposing counsel, I know they are going to do a genuinely good job. Which means anything I leave loose, they will find. Any argument I have not stress-tested, they will take apart.

So those are the cases where I prepare hardest.

What that actually looks like:

1. I assume every weak point will be found, because it will be
2. I do not rely on the other side missing something
3. I over-prepare the arguments I think are strongest
4. I get sharper, because the competition demands it

Being adversarial and being unprofessional are different things. I can respect somebody enormously and still intend to beat them.

Honestly, those cases are my favorite ones.

10/12/2026

People assume the number one cause of divorce is cheating. 💵

In my office it is money. It is also the second and third most common cause.

But here is the part that surprises people. It is almost never about the amount.

I have seen couples with very little money stay together comfortably, and couples with a great deal of it come apart entirely.

What actually breaks things:

1. One person not contributing the way the other expected them to
2. Two people quietly wanting different lifestyles
3. Bills getting tight and nobody willing to say it out loud
4. One person making financial decisions the other never agreed to

Every one of those is really a mismatch in expectation, not a shortfall in income.

Which means it is a conversation problem before it is ever a money problem.

10/08/2026

If you are representing yourself, questioning a witness is where it usually falls apart. ⚖️

Not because the questions are hard. Because of how you are allowed to ask them.

You cannot lead your own witness. Most people do not know that until an objection lands mid-sentence and the judge is looking at them.

AI is genuinely useful here:

1. Tell it you are preparing to question a witness
2. Say explicitly that you need to avoid leading questions
3. Tell it which answers you are trying to draw out
4. Ask it to flag the objections opposing counsel is likely to raise

What comes back is a workable script, in the right form, with the traps marked.

Same rule as always though. Keep confidential case details out of it. Ask about technique, not about your case. 🔒

10/07/2026

I tell people to go talk to other divorce lawyers before they hire me. 🤝

Two or three of them, ideally.

I know how that sounds coming from the person hoping to be hired. But a divorce lawyer is someone you will be speaking with during the worst months of your life, and fit matters more than most people realise going in.

What I actually do in a consultation:

1. Give you the facts of your situation, plainly
2. Tell you what the realistic range of outcomes looks like
3. Say out loud that you do not have to decide today
4. Suggest you speak with a couple of other attorneys first

Absent a genuine emergency, nobody should be making this decision in a rush. Different lawyers will give you slightly different perspectives, and hearing two or three of them is how you figure out which approach actually fits you.

If somebody is pushing you to sign the same day, that itself is information. 🚩

10/06/2026

Some people do not file because they want a divorce. They file because they want a reaction. 📩

I can usually spot it within the first week.

The petition goes out, and instead of asking what happens next, they ask what he said. What she said. Whether anyone seemed surprised.

They were not ending the marriage. They were sending a message.

Usually it is one of these:

1. They want their spouse to finally pay attention
2. There was an affair, and they want to see remorse
3. They want someone else to confirm how serious things have gotten
4. They think the shock will make the other person change

Here is the hard part. Filing is not a conversation. It is a legal process with its own momentum, and it does not pause while someone decides whether they have made their point.

Those are the cases where I see genuine regret later.

If what you want is a response, there are cheaper ways to ask for one.

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