About Our Firm

The Law Offices of Albert Goodwin, PA is a boutique law firm in Coral Gables, Florida, focused on divorce and family law. We represent clients throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties in every kind of family law matter -- from a simple uncontested dissolution to a complex contested case involving a closely held business or a contested time-sharing dispute.

Direct Access to the Lead Attorney

When you call our office, you speak directly with Albert Goodwin. You are not screened by an intake coordinator, and your case is not handed off to a junior associate after retention. The lead attorney develops the strategy, attends the hearings, conducts the mediation, and tries the case. Associates support that work; they do not replace it.

Florida Family Law Experience

Our practice tracks every amendment to Chapter 61 of the Florida Statutes. In recent years that has meant detailed work with:

• Senate Bill 1416 (2023), which abolished permanent alimony and restructured every other form of spousal support
• House Bill 1301 (2023), which created the rebuttable presumption that equal time-sharing is in the best interests of the child
• Florida's Collaborative Law Process Act (Florida Statutes §§ 61.55 - 61.58)
• The 2017 amendments to the federal Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act and Florida's response to them in military divorce cases

Practice Areas

We handle the full range of Florida family law matters:

• Dissolution of marriage -- contested, uncontested, and simplified
• Equitable distribution of marital property
• Alimony -- temporary, bridge-the-gap, rehabilitative, and durational
• Time-sharing and parenting plans
• Child support -- establishment, modification, and enforcement
• Parental relocation
• Modification of existing orders
• Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
• Mediation and collaborative divorce
• Domestic violence injunctions
• Military divorce and high-asset divorce

Our Approach

Divorce is expensive when it becomes adversarial for its own sake. Most cases settle. The cases that do not should be tried with focus and economy -- not by filing every available motion, but by identifying the specific issues that drive the outcome and preparing them carefully.

We work to settle what can be settled. When trial is necessary, we are ready for it. We measure success by your final result -- the time-sharing schedule, the asset division, the support number -- not by motion count or correspondence volume.

Office

We are located at 121 Alhambra Plaza, Suite 1000, in Coral Gables. The office is convenient to the Miami-Dade Family Courthouse, the Broward courthouses in Fort Lauderdale, and the Palm Beach County courthouses in West Palm Beach. We meet with clients by appointment in person, by phone, and by video conference.

Call 786-522-1411 or email [email protected] to schedule a confidential consultation.