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We have related for readers in prior blog posts the status of Georgia as being within a distinct minority of states to not provide legal counsel to indigent parents involved in child support matters. Several thousand parents facing civil contempt charges were incarcerated in state jails last year after state attorneys commenced litigation against them […]
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Divorcing couples sometimes have a lot on their plate as they approach the task of separating their shared life into the lives of two independent people. There are assets and liabilities to divide, child custody to decide, and numerous paperwork to remove from at least one person’s name. And although some laws and rules for […]
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Last updated on April 8, 2021
Two recent divorce cases from Richmond County underscore that, while shielding information regarding divorces in Georgia is not common, the details concerning dissolution can and sometimes are sealed by a judge and not privy to the public eye. Not often, though, with divorce information in most instances being considered a matter of public record. “It’s […]
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A man who went to court seeking revision of a divorce settlement in which he paid his wife for the assumed value of an investment that later flopped has been denied by the New York Court of Appeals, that state’s highest court. The failed investment was one of many managed by disgraced financier Bernard Madoff.. […]
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It’s hard to tell how Jamie McCourt — former Los Angeles Dodger co-owner, along with ex-husband Frank McCourt — might be feeling right now, in the aftermath of Frank’s long-expected sale of the team for $2.15 billion. The reason: All property-related matters in the couple’s high-asset divorce were settled last October, pursuant to which Jamie […]
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Representative Mike Turner, R-Ohio, touts pro-military legislation that he says “would ensure that being deployed, or the possibility of being deployed, is not used against them [service members] when child custody decisions are made by the courts.” Turner looks forward to passage of a strong new bill that would protect military members’ child custody and […]
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Many Georgia couples who have divorced understand fully well that tax matters invariably crop up following marriage dissolution. Others are not so sure what might be involved, which is hardly surprising, given the complexity of the U.S. Tax Code. An experienced family law attorney, especially one who has handled your divorce and is intimately familiar […]
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Last updated on April 8, 2021
We have until today demurred from posting any details concerning the high-asset divorce proceeding of former NBA basketball star and likely future Hall of Fame player Allen Iverson and his estranged spouse, Tawanna Iverson. The matter is, however, a bona-fide and growing news story and has become replete with sufficiently varied aspects of a complex […]
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New research studying marriage, divorce and the decision to live with your partner before marriage has identified a change in trends that previously suggested cohabitation before marriage increased the odds of divorce for a couple. According to the study, engaged couples who lived together before the wedding had similar odds of lasting 15 years in […]
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Last updated on April 8, 2021
Although bigamy is certainly not a new crime, discovering it on social networks is something novel. That is what happened recently when a Washington woman discovered on Facebook that her husband had a second wife. After an eight-year marriage, the couple separated but never filed for divorce. The man, a former corrections officer, was charged […]
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