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Epic Games, maker of the ultra-popular online video game “Fortnite” is suing a former employee for breach of his non-disclosure agreement. The former employee had access to the inner workings of the Fortnite design team.

In this blog post, we talk about a new app that can help couples going through divorce. The new app, called “CoParenter,” uses modern technology, including chat and artificial intelligence along with an option for live chat with outside family law professionals, to help couples co-parent their children.

Update: Woody Allen and Amazon have settled their lawsuit as of November 10, 2019. Although the terms of settlement are confidential, one involved person remarked that there were no winners in the settlement.

Are you ready to rumble? It’s a battle between heavyweights Hertz Corporation and Accenture, LLP. At the end of April 2019 Hertz sued Accenture in the Southern District of New York for claims that Accenture breached the parties’ contract by failing to deliver a functional website or mobile app.

In this Orlando contract lawyer blog post we look at a federal court decision that found a company’s privacy policy did not constitute a contract. McGarry v. Delta Air Lines, Case No. CV- 18-9827 (C.D. CA June 18, 2019).

In celebrity news, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, just announced that he and his wife MacKenzie will soon file for divorce after twenty-five years of marriage. Amazon is the world’s most valuable company and Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, so this is not just a divorce, it is a MEGA divorce.

Florida is a “no fault” state, meaning it is one of the majority of states in the nation in which the person filing for divorce does not have to prove their spouse was at fault. Under Florida divorce law, an attorney for the party suing for divorce only needs to show that the marriage is “irretrievably broken.”

Although it may sound simple to “get a divorce” it is much more complicated than you would initially think. All Orlando divorce cases, as attorneys will tell you, begin by filing a petition for dissolution of marriage with the appropriate court.

In news, California just passed a law that requires judges totreat family pets the same as childrenin a divorce proceeding. Florida does not have a “pet custody” statute.

Be prepared for a seismic change in Florida alimony law on January 1, 2019 when the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) goes into effect. The TCJA is the recent tax cut legislation signed into law by President Trump earlier this year.