On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 30, 2011 | High-Asset Divorce
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...
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 27, 2011 | Child Custody
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...
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 24, 2011 | High-Asset Divorce
Just when it looked like the high-asset divorce case involving Frank and Jamie McCourt — think Los Angeles Dodgers — was about to wind down and finally fade away, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig stepped in to ensure that it wouldn’t....
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 22, 2011 | Child Custody
We informed readers of a rather startling statistic in our April 29 blog post, namely, this: Online posts, mostly Facebook communications, have ended up as evidence in about 80 percent of all divorce cases that have been filed in the United States over the past five...
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 17, 2011 | Divorce
Ever since he first stepped on a professional basketball court, NBA legend and certain hall-of famer Allen Iverson has been a media mainstay, having been a scoring champion, most valuable player and marketing magnet. Iverson’s career has tapered off recently,...
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 15, 2011 | Child Custody
A planned child custody exchange that was typically supervised and uneventful turned tragic last week when an ex-boyfriend shot and killed the mother of his two children outside a shopping center in Milton. The shooting demonstrates the tensions and fraught...
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 10, 2011 | Child Custody
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...
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 7, 2011 | High-Asset Divorce
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....
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 3, 2011 | Divorce
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...
On behalf of The Siemon Law Firm | Jun 1, 2011 | High-Asset Divorce
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...
