We last reported on developing news in former boxing champion Evander Holyfield's child support dispute with the Georgia Department of Human Services (GDHS) in our June 11 blog post. As we noted therein, Holyfield has had continuing and long-term difficulties keeping...
Month: July 2012
Paternity and Legitimation
We were recently asked a Paternity and Legitimation question. A Paternity action is when a father brings an action to enforce his rights to visit with a child. A Legitimation action is an action brought by a mother to make the father the legitimate legal father of the...
Property Division in Divorce
A women recently asked us: Am I entitiled to a portion of the home, we purchased as common law partners and later married 3 years later The answer: There are three distinct questions here, first were you common law married, two are you entitled to an equitable...
Paternity and Legitimation question
We were recently asked a Paternity and Legitimation question. A Paternity action is when a father brings an action to enforce his rights to visit with a child. A Legitimation action is an action brought by a mother to make the father the legitimate legal father of the...
Will he get have of our property
A women recently asked us a divorce question: My husband has filed for divorce. We have been married almost 18 years , turbulent years. He is asking for half of what we have, is that likely? The answer: As a general rule the courts here in Georgia divide marital...
One Cruise-Holmes divorce certainty: page-one media attention
If you think you might be at a saturation point with Tom Cruise, just wait. That is the assessment of a number of media analysts in the wake of the recent announcement that Cruise and his wife of five years, actress Katie Holmes, are getting a divorce. "Over the next...
Good Parenting Is Not Merely a Matter of Gender
Father's Day was a couple of weeks ago. It's nice that dads, like moms, get a special day. But it takes more than one day a year to recognize that the role of fathers often goes unappreciated in today's society. This isn't just a matter of fathers' rights in a legal...
Terrell Owens Case Highlights Child Support Issue
In Atlanta, as elsewhere in the U.S., failure to pay child support can have serious consequences. This is the case regardless of whether the parents who had the child together were ever married and divorced. Even if a couple was never married, child support...
Amicability during divorce a sometimes overstressed priority
Many couples whose marriages end in divorce might prefer to go their separate ways entirely. When the time comes for a clean break, though, not every couple has that luxury -- particularly if children are involved. When child support and shared child custody are...
A look at some of history’s truly pricey divorce outcomes
One particular point prominently jumps out in a newspaper's examination of some of the most expensive and high-asset divorce settlements in history. That is this: If you are a would-be business tycoon and have a goal of securing an immense amount of wealth, sign a...

