[DOWNLOAD] "Extortion: What Your Client Wants (Florida)" by Florida Bar Journal # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Extortion: What Your Client Wants (Florida)
- Author : Florida Bar Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
Description
Extortion is one of the most used, abused, misunderstood, and ignored theories of law affecting the area of marital and family law. Family law cases touch upon criminal issues, often with such subtleties that they are overlooked or just considered part of the normal conflict. It is a common occurrence that threats are made directly or indirectly to report the other spouse to, for example, the Internal Revenue Service for any number of wrongs (usually nondisclosure of income) if certain demands are not met. Consider a scenario whereby the wife's counsel has advised that in the event a satisfactory settlement is not reached on all issues, many of them monetary, the husband, a medical doctor, will face some problems with the IRS for certain past indiscretions and additionally may face some scrutiny for the improper dispensing of prescription medicines. These threats are made in phone conversations, indirectly in writing, and at mediation, where all conversations are privileged. To some, these tactics may appear to be just another day of squabbling and negotiating in family law. However, this practice is actually a crime, subject to prosecution in Florida, and is a basis to invalidate any agreement or ruling based thereon.