Demere Mason, P.A. in Jacksonville, Florida. He practices exclusively appellate and family law, handling family law appeals throughout Florida and family law trials in northeast Florida. Mike is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, former law clerk for Judge Emerson R. Thompson, Jr. of the Fifth District Court of Appeal, and former machinegunner in the United States Marine Corps. He can be reached at mikegiel@jdemeremasonlaw.com. This article, with minor edits, was originally published in the Florida Bar Family Law Section’s Commentator, Vol. XXIX, No. 3, Spring 2016.