Practice Areas: Family Law; view more
Licensed in Florida since: 2017
Education: University of Florida Levin College of Law
Selected to Rising Stars: 2021 - 2024 Details
Attorney J. Robert Angstadt is the founder and president of Tampa Divorce in Tampa, Florida. Nationally recognized as among the top family law attorneys in the country, Mr. Angstadt provides unmatched counsel and support to clients throughout the greater Tampa Bay region and beyond who are going through a divorce or have some other serious legal issue affecting their families.
Over the course of his legal career, Mr. Angstadt has achieved remarkable success helping his clients with their complex and pressing legal challenges involving child custody and support, parental alienation, domestic violence and other issues. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he also has extensive experience handling military divorces, and he provides the highly personalized counsel his clients need to make the best-informed decisions as he aggressively pursues the favorable outcomes they expect and deserve.
Honored for his outstanding professionalism and superior client service, Mr. Angstadt has earned a Lead Counsel designation and consistent top peer reviews on Martindale-Hubbell. He has also received recognition from Best Lawyers, and Attorney and Practice Magazine has named him among the Top 10 Attorneys in his region for the past several years. He has also received the 10 Best in Client Satisfaction Award from the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys along with superb, 10 out of 10 client ratings on Avvo.
A 2010 graduate of Chapman University, Mr. Angstadt received his Master of Business Administration from Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, in 2013. He then attended the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he obtained his Juris Doctor cum laude in 2017.
Mr. Angstadt has served as president of the University of Florida Association for Law and Business and Justice for the University of Florida Supreme Court. He is also an active member of The Florida Bar as well as other local, state and national legal organizations.
Practice areas
Family LawFocus areas
Alimony & Spousal Support, Child Support, Custody & Visitation, Divorce, Domestic Violence
- 100% Family Law
First Admitted: 2017, Florida
Professional Webpage: https://tampadivorce.com/
- Chapman University in California, B.A., 2010
- Thunderbird School of Global Management, M.B.A., 2013
- As a justice on the University of Florida Supreme Court, I authored an opinion., Authoring Justice, Reconsideration pursuant to petition by Student Body: UF Student Tribunals' & UF Student Committees' Application of State and Federal Law, Supreme Court Reporter, 2016
- Teaching Assistant - Appellate Advocacy, 2016
- Teaching Assistant - Legal Writing, 2015
- University of Florida Supreme Court - Associate Justice, 2016
- University of Florida Association for Law & Business - President, 2015
- Class Ranking 37/310 at University of Florida Levin College of Law., 2017
- UF Law Family Advocacy Clinic, 2016
- Successfully got custody for my client (child's adult sister) in a 751 Temporary Custody by a Third Party Family Member case, rescuing the child from an abusive environment., 2016
- Defeated a domestic violence injunction attempt in a "he said, she said" case, getting the injunction completely dismissed., 2018
- Defeated an attempt by grandparents to keep custody of a child that was fraudulently obtained., 2019
- Successfully obtained a domestic violence injunction for a client who had been abused., 2018
- Defeated a domestic violence injunction on procedural grounds., 2018
- Successfully defeated an attempt by the opposing counsel, at a temporary relief hearing, to get my client imputed income at his former wage for child support calculations., 2018
- Getting unsupervised timesharing at a mediation for a client who had never before spent time alone with the parties' child due to some past criminal issues., 2018
- Winning an emergency motion hearing where the mother's new boyfriend was emotionally and psychologically abusing the children. The children left the courtroom with my client and moved out of state to live with him., 2017
- Getting paternity disestablished (client learned he was not the father) within months after taking the case that had been stalled for four years., 2018
- Getting a Department of Revenue child support case, where the Department was seeking more than $10,000 in back child support, completely dismissed on procedural grounds., 2019
- Getting 50/50 timesharing (custody) at a temporary relief hearing where the other party only wanted my client to have every other weekend, 2018
- Winning a temporary relief hearing where the other party was seeking alimony, attorney's fees, thousands of dollars in back child support, etc. Only future child support was awarded., 2019
- Winning a trial gaining majority timesharing (custody) for a client who was previously only allowed to see his son a few nights every two weeks., 2018
- Member - Hillsborough County Bar Association Family Law Section, 2019
- Member - Florida Bar Family Law Section, 2017
- Attorney and Practice Magazine Top 10 Family Law Attorney in Florida, Top 10 Family Law Attorney, Attorney and Practice Magazine, 2019
- Operation Iraqi Freedom Medal
- Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
- Navy Achievement Medals
- Lead Counsel Rated, Lead Counsel Rated, Lead Counsel, 2019
- Avvo Rated 9.1, Avvo Rated 9.1, Avvo, 2019
- 10 Best in client satisfaction., 10 Best - Florida, American Institute of Family Law Attorneys, 2019
- Martindale Hubble Peer Rated, Peer Rated, Martindale Hubble, 2019
Office location for J. Robert Angstadt
13057 W Linebaugh Ave
Ste 102
Tampa, FL 33626
Phone: 813-902-3937
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2021 - 2024
