Florida law requires equitable (fair) division of property between spouses. Equitable usually means equal—but a judge who believes that a precisely equal division would be unfair can divide the property in a different proportion after considering all relevant factors, including the following:

• the length of the marriage
• each spouse’s economic circumstances
• any interruption in either spouse’s career or educational opportunities
• each spouse’s contributions to the marriage, including contributions as a homemaker or parent,
• either spouses contribution to the career or educational opportunities of the other spouse
• each spouse’s contribution to acquiring or increasing income
• each spouse’s contribution to improving marital or nonmarital assets
• liabilities incurred by either spouse, whether affecting martial or non-marital assets, and
• either spouse’s intentional dissipation, waste, depletion, or destruction of marital assets after the filing of the petition for divorce or within 2 years prior to filing.

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