MD’s View on Child Obesity and Custody Draws Strong Reactions

Last updated on April 8, 2021

When Georgia courts look at the best interests of the child in child custody matters, they consider a number of factors that collectively influence their judgment. Those include identifying who is the primary caregiver; issues concerning parenting fitness; evidence of any abuse in the home; the preference of the child; where the parents live; opportunities […]

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Child Support Suit Filed in Fulton County against NFL Star

Last updated on April 8, 2021

An interesting website called Salary Money that lets people compute and examine their salary in real time from different perspectives specializes in providing some eye-opening details about the money that celebrities — especially sports stars — make. Take Terrell Owens, the likely future Hall of Fame professional football player known virtually as much for his […]

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Divorce Settlement Lesson: Draft Carefully, Know Consequences

Last updated on April 8, 2021

When a wealthy estate is at issue in a high-asset divorce, it pays — literally — to have a family law attorney with a deep well of experience in property division matters draft well-considered and carefully written divorce settlement documents. It is certainly important, obviously, that a client also fully understand those documents and the […]

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Supreme Court Rules on Anna Nicole Smith High-Asset Drama

Last updated on April 8, 2021

It was truly a high-asset divorce in every sense of that phrase, and the legal battle surrounding its material details has been playing out in courts for more than 15 years. It may have finally come to an end last week in the United States Supreme Court. The case of Anna Nicole Smith, a former […]

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Court Ruing Stresses Grandparents’ Limited Visitation Rights

Last updated on April 8, 2021

Although the following story concerning child custody comes from Minneapolis rather than Fulton County, it is instructive for its portrayal of the types of complex and emotional issues that can arise in custody matters anywhere in the country and how the law responds in such situations. It also serves as a strong reminder of how […]

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Update: Controversial Child Custody Ruling Ignites Passions

Last updated on April 8, 2021

A case we reported on in a blog post last month concerning a child custody ruling in North Carolina was raising a number of eyebrows then and rapidly garnering a considerable amount of attention from the national press. What a difference a few weeks makes. Since April 25, the date of Judge Nancy Gordon’s ruling, […]

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TN Alimony Case Springboard for Examining GA Spousal Support

Last updated on April 8, 2021

A case in Tennessee that is attracting a considerable amount of legal interest and is currently before that state’s Supreme Court highlights the concept of alimony following divorce, also commonly referred to in Georgia as spousal support or spousal maintenance. The case serves as a useful springboard for examination of Georgia’s spousal support system. Under […]

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Factors Underlying “Grey Divorce”

Last updated on April 8, 2021

Deborah Moskovitch, an author and divorce consultant, notes that the divorce rate is increasing for couples who have been married for several decades or longer — termed “grey divorce” — and that, given societal changes, this should hardly be surprising. She notes, for example, that women in decades past sorely lacked the financial independence and […]

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GA Supreme Court Favors Tycoon’s Mistress in Latest Ruling

Last updated on April 8, 2021

Justices of the Georgia Supreme Court can certainly be forgiven if they don’t ever want to hear the names Harvey Strother and Anne Melican for the rest of their lives. In a high-asset divorce and estate matter that has been consistently playing out in headlines and media stories in Georgia for several years, various issues […]

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Prenup a Focus in Schwarzenegger/Shriver Marital Dissolution

Last updated on April 8, 2021

We have remarked in previous posts that, notwithstanding the entertainment value some people might derive from celebrity tales that occasionally dominate media headlines for a time, those stories can be widely instructive regarding family matters and other issues. Consider the recent Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver marital split, for instance. One matter that has many […]

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