Category: Divorce

Last updated on April 8, 2021

Thanks to continued advancements in the field of information and communications technology, it’s becoming easier and easier to conduct anything international online, whether it’s holding meetings, attending lectures, or just talking face-to-face with friends and family. The fact remains, however, that despite this technological evolution, people are still traveling, working and attending school outside the […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Many people may think that if a married couple gets “separated” that they are no longer married. But actually, a legal separation still means that the couple is married — they are just under court order to provide certain duties under their still-intact marriage. Often times, the separated couple will live apart during their separation. […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

It’s not often that family law cases here in Georgia make national headlines, but thanks to a recently filed petition in the ongoing divorce litigation involving author and socialite Danielle Rollins, and her ex-husband Glen Rollins, the heir to the Orkin Pest Control fortune, legal circles across the nation are now buzzing. Indeed, the petition, […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Most of us likely can’t imagine going more than an hour without accessing the Internet thanks to our smartphones, laptops and seemingly constant WiFi connection. While we would prefer to think that we are harnessing this technology for purely productive purposes, the truth is that we do spend a lot of time just indulging our […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Most people think that the lives of professional athletes are something to be envied, complete with great wealth, worldwide fame and, of course, glory on the court, diamond, field, course or rink. While it’s true that being a professional athlete does afford certain advantages, it’s important for people to understand that this wealth, fame and […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

The longstanding theory when it comes to the ages at which couples are most likely to divorce is that those who tied the knot later in life are far more likely to stay married than their younger counterparts. Interestingly enough, however, a professor at the University of Utah recently discovered that this may no longer […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

For myriad reasons, people in failing marriages in Georgia and elsewhere often spend much time — sometimes years — continuing to languish in their unhappy union while simultaneously thinking of making positive changes. Friends and neighbors might talk. Going it alone would be too scary. The disruptions related to and following a divorce would be […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

As noted in a recent media report, the biggest battle some military servicemembers ever face has nothing to do with foreign enemies of the United States. Rather, it is focused upon the disposition of a hard-earned military pension during the divorce process. Of course, divorcing spouses of servicemembers — whether they themselves served in the […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

We pointed out in our immediately preceding blog post that “divorcing seniors have a highly singular and age-specific set of divorce-related issues that they must often contend with.” Our May 20 entry didn’t get into specifics. We do that today. Here’s one, and a divorce consideration that doesn’t feature nearly as often in dissolution matters […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

We have commented in past select blog posts on the organic nature of divorce and the highly variable issues that might feature in a given case in Georgia or elsewhere. As we have noted, the term “boilerplate” is not an apt depiction for divorce generally, which differs in every instance and materially in high numbers […]

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