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Westshore is Tampa's business district on the city's west side, more than 11 million square feet of office space between Kennedy Boulevard and Old Tampa Bay. When a marriage ends in the middle of a career, both deserve careful handling. We practice family law exclusively, and have since 1992.
Family-law focused since 1992. Every consultation is confidential.
Westshore runs from Hillsborough Avenue down to Kennedy Boulevard and from Himes Avenue out to Old Tampa Bay, what the Westshore Alliance calls Florida's largest commercial business district. Tampa International Airport sits within the district at its northwest corner and is one of its defining anchors, with Raymond James Stadium and George M. Steinbrenner Field holding the eastern edge along Dale Mabry Highway. If you work in one of the towers along Westshore Boulevard or Boy Scout Boulevard, your days are already full. A divorce does not wait for a quiet quarter, so we build the work around your calendar instead: meetings set for hours you can actually spare, matters moved by phone and email between them, and discretion as a standing habit rather than a favor.
Careers in this district also tend to complicate the balance sheet. Compensation here is often more than a paycheck: equity, deferred pay, an interest in a company or a professional practice. In a Florida divorce those assets fall under equitable distribution, where valuation and timing can matter as much as the asset itself. That is general information, not advice about your case, but it is exactly the territory our high-net-worth divorce page walks through in more depth, and it is work this firm has organized itself around since January 1992.
And for all its office space, people live here. Westshore Palms keeps residential streets of mostly single-family homes right in the middle of the district, between the Kennedy Boulevard and I-275 corridors. Carver City-Lincoln Gardens, a midcentury neighborhood whose Lincoln Gardens streets date to 1948, still holds roughly 850 homes south of International Plaza. Beach Park, platted in November 1924 near Old Tampa Bay, carries Mediterranean Revival homes from the Florida Land Boom. In every one of them, a divorce tends to turn on the home and the life built inside it, and the Westshore Alliance itself describes a district that has shifted from purely commercial to mixed use, with a growing residential population in apartments, condominiums, townhomes, and single-family streets.
Westshore is a district of the City of Tampa, so its family-law matters belong to the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, the court system serving Hillsborough County. Hearings happen downtown, and knowing the venue before you file means you walk in prepared instead of unsettled.
800 E. Twiggs Street, Tampa 33602
The Edgecomb Courthouse on Twiggs Street is home to the circuit's Family Law Division and the primary courthouse for divorce, custody, and family matters filed in Hillsborough County. For Westshore residents this is where a case is heard, and if yours is set here, the room, the rhythm, and the schedule are all known quantities by then.
Edgecomb Courthouse, first floor (Room 101)
Family-law petitions and records pass through the Clerk's intake on the first floor of the Edgecomb Courthouse. We handle the filing details so the paperwork is one less thing pulling at a workday, and so nothing sits waiting because a form went to the wrong window.
Which division hears your matter depends on your circumstances, and we confirm that at your consultation. For those handling a case on their own, the circuit's self-help resources, the Legal Information Center and the Family Forms Clinic, are operated by Bay Area Legal Services in coordination with the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.
You may be early in a career with young children at home, at its peak with the most complicated balance sheet of your life, or looking at the years past it. Tell us where you stand, and the counsel meets you there.
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Explore →From the residential streets of Westshore Palms to the towers by International Plaza and Bay Street, the district holds working lives and home lives side by side, and we serve both. Across Kennedy Boulevard, the district's southern boundary, our South Tampa page covers the neighborhoods on the other side.
And if your life sits closer to downtown or elsewhere in the county, our Hillsborough County and Tampa pages open onto the firm's home turf and the wider bay area.
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Read our Google reviewsWestshore is a district of the City of Tampa, so a divorce or family-law matter for a Westshore resident is filed in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, the court system serving all of Hillsborough County. Hearings take place downtown at the George E. Edgecomb Courthouse on East Twiggs Street, the primary courthouse for divorce, custody, and family matters filed in the county, and petitions and records pass through the Clerk's family-law intake on the courthouse's first floor. Which judge and division you draw depends on your circumstances, and we walk through what that means for you before anything is filed.
We work at it honestly rather than promising hours we cannot keep. Consultations are set around the commitments you actually have, and much of what follows moves by phone and email between meetings, so a case does not demand standing appearances in our lobby. When something truly needs to happen face to face, we schedule it for a time you can spare and make that time count. Tell us what your weeks look like, and we will find the arrangement that fits.
In general terms, Florida treats assets earned or acquired during the marriage as marital property subject to equitable distribution, and that can reach an ownership stake in a company, a professional practice, or compensation paid in equity rather than salary. Questions of valuation and timing often matter as much as the asset itself, and the answers turn on the facts of your case. This is general information, not advice about your situation. Our high-net-worth divorce page covers these issues in more depth, and a consultation is where they get answered for you specifically.
A demanding career deserves counsel that carries its share.
People who spend their days in the Westshore district manage teams, budgets, and deadlines. What a divorce asks of them is different: patience with a process they do not control, on a schedule the court sets. Our job is to carry that process so your working life does not have to absorb it.
Ted Rechel has been licensed to practice law since 1990 and founded this firm in January 1992. He practices alongside attorney Jacob Goss, and the firm has handled family law exclusively since 1992: divorce, equitable distribution, parenting plans, and the harder questions that come when careers and marriages end at different speeds.
What that focus buys you is steadiness. Not promises about outcomes, which no honest lawyer makes, but preparation, plain answers, and an office that treats your privacy the way you treat your clients' own.
Reach out for a confidential consultation. We will talk through where things stand, what the road ahead may hold, and how to move through it without your work life absorbing the shock.
Every consultation is confidential.
