Florida’s divorce professionals, verified.
Real attorneys, certified mediators, CDFAs and therapists — credentials checked against Florida’s own official directories, not paid placement. This is the first state live; 49 more are rolling out.
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Every professional below is currently at the Listed tier: credentials independently verified from an official Florida source, automatically included whether they’ve opted into The Cusp or not — the same way a bar association directory works. Nobody here has paid for placement, and none of them have published pricing or been reviewed yet. That’s the next tier, and it opens as professionals and members opt in.
What “verified” means on this page
Not every check is the same check, and most directories hide that. Every listing below says which kind it was, and the date we did it — because a license check is a photograph, not a guarantee. Somebody confirmed in August can be suspended in September.
- State registerChecked against the state’s own licensing, court or bar record.
- Issuing bodyChecked against the organization that grants this credential — authoritative for the credential, but it is their own list.
- Membership listingA membership directory. Joining is voluntary, and this is not a license check.
- Self-reportedTaken from this person’s own website. Nobody independent confirmed it, and we are re-checking these against an official register.
- Source linkedChecked against the source linked, which is not a state register.
Nobody paid to be listed here, and nobody can. Listings are not for sale, and no professional on this page has paid us anything to appear on it or to appear higher on it. If we are ever paid in connection with anyone listed here, it will say so on this page, next to that listing. Most of these were confirmed against a state register. A small number were not, and rather than quietly presenting those as equivalent, they are marked and we are re-checking them.
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- Family law & divorce attorneys
- Florida Supreme Court certified family mediators
- Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFAs)
- Therapists & counselors, divorce/family focus — Divorce/family focus noted from the professional's own public practice listing; the license status itself is the independently-verified part.
- What these professionals cost in Florida, by county — CDFA and therapist rates in these counties track the regional South band on the main directory page ($175–$325/hr and $85–$190/session respectively) — South Florida runs toward the higher end of that range, Central Florida toward the lower end.
- Child & adolescent therapists — A child or adolescent focus is taken from the professional’s own public description of their practice; the license status is the independently-verified part.
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Family law & divorce attorneys
Verified active and in good standing against the Florida Bar’s official “Find a Lawyer” directory, filtered to family law practice.
Florida Supreme Court certified family mediators
Verified against the Dispute Resolution Center’s official Mediator Reporting System, filtered to certified Family mediators.
Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFAs)
Pulled from the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts’ own public directory of credentialed CDFA professionals practicing in Florida.
Therapists & counselors, divorce/family focus
License verified active/clear against the Florida Department of Health’s official MQA license lookup. Divorce/family focus noted from the professional’s own public practice listing; the license status itself is the independently-verified part.
This is a starting roster, not a complete one. Florida licenses thousands of family law attorneys, hundreds of certified family mediators, and many more CDFAs and therapists than are listed here yet. Inclusion above doesn’t mean a professional has agreed to be listed, partnered with The Cusp, or been reviewed by a client — it means their credential was independently verified against the official source cited under their entry, the same way a bar association directory works. Spot an error, or are you one of the professionals above and want to claim your listing, publish real pricing, or request removal? Email hello@thecusp.app.
What these professionals cost in Florida, by county
Illustrative, member-reported ranges — not an official fee survey or a quote — for the five counties covered above. Real Verified Pricing replaces these county estimates as professionals opt in.
| County | Attorney, uncontested | Attorney, contested | Mediator (full case) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami-Dade | $1,800–$4,000 | $7,000–$30,000+ | $150–$400/hr |
| Broward | $1,600–$3,800 | $6,500–$27,000+ | $140–$375/hr |
| Palm Beach | $1,700–$4,200 | $7,000–$32,000+ | $150–$400/hr |
| Orange (Orlando) | $1,200–$3,200 | $5,000–$20,000+ | $110–$300/hr |
| Hillsborough (Tampa) | $1,300–$3,300 | $5,500–$22,000+ | $120–$320/hr |
| Duval (Jacksonville) | $1,100–$3,000 | $4,800–$19,000+ | $100–$280/hr |
| Pinellas (St. Petersburg) | $1,200–$3,100 | $5,000–$20,000+ | $110–$300/hr |
| Lee (Fort Myers) | $1,300–$3,400 | $5,500–$21,000+ | $115–$310/hr |
| Polk (Lakeland) | $1,000–$2,700 | $4,200–$16,500+ | $90–$260/hr |
| Volusia (Daytona Beach) | $1,050–$2,850 | $4,500–$17,500+ | $95–$270/hr |
CDFA and therapist rates in these counties track the regional South band on the main directory page ($175–$325/hr and $85–$190/session respectively) — South Florida runs toward the higher end of that range, Central Florida toward the lower end.
Child & adolescent therapists
For the children in this, not the adults. Every license below was confirmed against Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling — never the federal NPI registry, whose license fields are supplied by providers rather than confirmed by a board. A child or adolescent focus is taken from the professional’s own public description of their practice; the license status is the independently-verified part.
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Doing your own Florida filing instead?
The Florida Divorce Kit has the exact forms, deadlines, and rejection traps for your county.
The rest of what we have written about Florida. Every figure is quoted from Florida’s own statute or its courts’ own published schedule, and carries the date we last checked it.
- The divorce kit
- What it costs to file
- Child custody
- Child support
- Guardians ad litem and child representation
- Travel, custody and relocation
- Alimony
- Property, support and legal fees
- Protective orders
- Changing your name back
- Legal help you can afford
- What Divorce Actually Costs
- What Happens to the House in a Florida Divorce
Everybody on this page charges for their time. If money is the constraint — and for most people reading this it is — these two come first, and we earn nothing from either.
- FloridaLawHelp.org — free civil legal help for people who qualify on income.
- Florida Courts — Florida Courts Help / Self-Help Centers and Family Court Services — the court’s own self-help material, free to everybody regardless of income.
Divorce coaches are not in this directory, and here is why
Everyone above holds a license a state regulator can take away. “Divorce coach” is not a protected title — in Florida or anywhere else — so there is no license to check and no regulator to check it with.
We read each certifying body’s own website looking for one thing: a published route by which a coach can lose the credential. Of the three divorce-specific credentials we examined, not one publishes a disciplinary process a client could actually use.
That is not a reason never to hire one. A coach is cheaper than a lawyer for the things that are not legal problems, and a great deal of what costs people money in a divorce is not a legal problem. It is a reason to know what the credential does and does not mean before you pay anybody.
What the credential actually means · What to ask before you pay · How this directory is ordered
Every agent we introduce in Florida is divorce-trained and vetted
Most agents are competent and most have never handled a divorce sale — two clients who may not be speaking, a court order neither was told about, a closing date somebody else controls. So we do not list agents. We introduce one, and only after they have cleared four things:
- a license we checked ourselves with the regulator, with no unresolved discipline;
- six closed sales in the last two years, from their own MLS records;
- 4.7 or better across every site they are reviewed on, at least ten reviews;
- our divorce real estate training and its twenty-question assessment.
Then we check on you, not on them — at seven days and again at six months.
Ask for an introduction* · The standards in full · Four questions to ask any agent · Agents: get certified
* Hyleri, who writes this site, is a licensed agent with Compass and may receive a referral fee from the introduced agent’s commission if a sale completes — never added to what you pay. How we make money.
I take divorce sales myself, in Florida
I am Hyleri. I write The Cusp, and I am a licensed real estate agent with Compass in Connecticut and Florida. Divorce and separation sales are what I do — two clients who may not be speaking, a court order neither was told about, a closing date somebody else controls. If you would rather work with me than be introduced to somebody else, say so and you will be.
This is not a directory listing, and it is not a recommendation. The professionals listed above were checked against a register and none of them paid to be there. I am the owner of this site, so I cannot be one of them, and putting myself in that list would make every other entry in it worth less. This box says what I do and leaves you to decide.
If you are not in Connecticut or Florida, ask for an introduction instead. The agent you are sent to has cleared the four checks above, and my interest in that introduction is disclosed below.
Ask for me, or for an introduction · How to choose an agent for a divorce sale · What the law does to the house · How we make money
If I am your agent, I am paid the way any agent is paid, out of the commission on the sale. If you are introduced to somebody else instead, The Cusp may receive a referral fee from that agent’s commission — never added to what you pay. Either way it is disclosed here before you contact anyone.