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Young Lawyers Division in Florida Holds Holiday Event for Kids

11/10/2018

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A lifelong resident of Florida, Judge John Bowman received his law degree from St. Thomas University in Miami. Since 2002, he has worked in Ft. Lauderdale as a circuit judge for the State of Florida. For his work with the highest civil court in the state, Judge John Bowman earned 2017 Jurist of the Year from the Broward County Bar Association (BCBA) Young Lawyers Section (YLS).

The YLS seeks to stimulate the interest of attorneys within the BCBA and promotes professional understanding within the community. To be a member, the attorney must be in their first five years of practice in the Florida Bar or be under the age of 36. To keep its members connected, the YLS hosts several annual events.

One of these events is its Holiday in February, with the 2019 event occurring on February 9 at the Museum of Discovery and Science. The YLS partners with the Heart Gallery of Broward County and invites about 50 local foster children to spend the morning building gingerbread houses, completing arts and crafts projects, playing games, and getting their faces painted. Santa visits the children, and he passes out gifts to each child. Afterward, the children and chaperones spend the rest of the day exploring everything the museum has to offer.

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Probate Law in Florida

2/7/2017

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Since 2002, Judge John Bowman has held the office of circuit judge in Florida’s highest civil trial court. Before joining the bench, Judge John Bowman was a probate attorney.

Probate is the process of settling estates under the supervision of the court. When a person dies (the decedent) leaving behind an estate, the court supervises the administration of the estate to ensure that all assets are gathered, creditors are paid, taxes are paid, and the remaining property is distributed to the decedent’s beneficiaries. The purpose of probate is to safeguard the decedent’s estate and prevent fraud.

Probate administration in Florida applies only to probate assets, or assets that form part of the decedent’s estate and were registered in the decedent’s own name. Probate assets include bank accounts, life insurance policies, retirement accounts, and real estate.

Assets that cannot be probate assets include real estate owned under joint tenancy (ownership passes automatically to the surviving co-owner) and beneficiary designations such as retirement accounts with named beneficiaries.

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Candidate Eligibility Lawsuit Dismissed in Broward County

5/19/2016

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A member of the Florida Bar for nearly three decades, Judge John Bowman was elected to serve as a circuit judge in 2002, leading him to the Juvenile Dependency Division in the 17th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. Judge John Bowman has also been involved in a number of noteworthy cases in Broward County, including a lawsuit related to the 2016 Republican presidential primary ballot.

In March 2016, he ruled against an attempt to have Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz removed from the ballot based on a claim that the candidates aren’t natural-born citizens and are therefore ineligible to run for president. The lawsuit claimed that both Cruz and Rubio became citizens without undertaking a legal naturalization process and argued that a person can’t simultaneously be naturalized and natural-born.

During the hearing, Judge Bowman explained that the while the Constitution requires a president to be natural-born, there is no binding definition of the term. He also rejected the lawsuit because the plaintiff failed to include the Florida Secretary of State as a defendant. Responsible for the Division of Elections, the Secretary of State's office alone can be compelled to eliminate a candidate from a ballot. Judge Bowman further noted that there were no grounds for the lawsuit since the plaintiff wasn’t injured by Cruz and Rubio being on the ballot.
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Child Adoption Proceedings in Florida

10/30/2014

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Judge John Bowman, a circuit justice in Florida's 17th circuit, has received widespread attention as an advocate for children in foster care. Successfully reducing the number of adoption-eligible children in the Circuit's Juvenile Dependency division from 150 to only five, Judge John Bowman has continued to promote adoption and received the Guardian Ad Litem Program's community advocate award for his efforts.

For a child to be eligible for adoption in Florida, the birth mother and any other person entitled to custody must agree to the adoption. Any court-verified evidence of abuse or neglect automatically waives this requirement. Once the court has terminated parental rights, adoptive parents may finalize the adoption after 30 days or following 90 days in the adoptive home, whichever occurs later.

Once finalized, adoption means that the child in question becomes a legal part of the new family. The child receives a new birth certificate that names the adoptive parents as the child's parents, and most children receive a new name to reflect their new family situation. The adoptive family accepts all parental responsibilities for the child and gives the child equal legal status in relation to other current or future children of the family.
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