When a marriage is ending or a family is changing, the questions can come faster than the answers.
Family-law focused since 1992. Serving Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties.
It should come first. A parenting plan is not a cookie cutter, and your children will not be pressed into one. We build the plan that fits them.
You built this life over decades. Now it has to be taken apart with care, so that what you saved finances what comes next, not the fight.
Your life is not over. You have a lot of it left to live. Our job is to put you in the best position to live it well.
What happens to the children? The house? The finances? Where will everyone live? What should you do now, and what should you absolutely not do?
You do not have to figure it out alone.
Rechel & Associates, P.A. was founded in Tampa on January 1, 1992. For more than three decades, we have helped individuals and families throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas Counties navigate divorce and family law matters with experienced legal guidance and personal attention.
This is not simply a legal case. It is your life. The decisions made today can affect your children, your finances, your relationships, and your future for years to come.
At Rechel & Associates, you are not a case number being passed through a high-volume law firm. You work with experienced family law attorneys who know the local courts, understand what is at stake, and take the time to understand what matters to you.
Since 1992, we have helped families through difficult transitions and toward what comes next.
When you are ready to understand your options, we are ready to help.
Wherever you are in life, the path forward is different, and so is the counsel you need. We organize our guidance around the season you are in.
Divorce in your twenties and thirties. Young children, time-sharing, and starting over on solid footing.
Explore →Shared assets, spousal support, and co-parenting teenagers through a season of real change.
Explore →Long marriages, retirement accounts, and the questions that come with the next chapter.
Explore →That focus, held since 1992, means the depth of a firm that has seen your situation many times before.
Uncontested, collaborative, and complex divorce.
Plans tailored to your children, not the cookie cutter.
Division of assets and liabilities, including complex estates.
Rehabilitative, durational, and long-term support.
Establishment, enforcement, and modification.
Agreements that protect what you bring and what you build.
Establishing rights and responsibilities from day one.
Protection for petitioners. Defense for the wrongly accused.
When a marriage is void or voidable under Florida law.
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Every case is different. I look at what you need, what the other side is doing, and what is realistically available. Then I tell you what I think and why. You decide.
Strategy here is not a slogan. It is the patient work of maneuvering a case into position, move by move, so that when the moment comes you are negotiating from strength instead of hoping for it. That takes preparation and time. It is the point of the work.
Collaborative and negotiated divorce that protects the working relationship you still need for your children.
Experienced, decisive courtroom advocacy for when the other side will not be reasonable.
Parenting plans and time-sharing built around your children's stability, not just the calendar.
Clear-eyed division of assets, support, and long-term security, including high-asset estates.
A multi-generational team, seasoned and steady. Meet the attorneys and staff who will work on your case.
I am not afraid to try a case. I also will not push you into one you do not need.
I opened this firm in 1992 and have handled nothing but family law since.
Those two things sound like they are in tension. They are not. Knowing a case can be tried is what makes the other paths work at all. The willingness to go is the reason a reasonable settlement is on the table.
What I will not do is run up a case that should have settled, or tell you to accept a resolution that does not hold.
You will work with a senior attorney from the first conversation, not a rotating case number. That is the reason this firm is the size it is.
You did not plan for this. Very few people do.
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“Ted Rechel is the advocate you want working for you if you find yourself facing the unfortunate experience of divorce or child custody. Ted has been with us every step of the way.”
“Ted was a great listener, very professional, and leads with the facts. He is also very reliable, courteous, prompt, and knowledgeable, while also showing genuine concern for what's in the best interest of you and your family.”
“The best decision we made for our case was to consult with Ted. The most knowledgeable, professional, and honest lawyer we have met.”
Schedule a confidential consultation. We will help you understand where you stand and what a clear path forward could look like.
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