Paternity testing has come a long way in recent years, with most experts now readily noting that issues relating to accessibility and reliability are largely past-tense concerns. There are more testing facilities, and DNA technology has made a great leap forward in...
Month: August 2012
Prenuptial agreements: drafting, enforceability, other factors
Family law experts have increasingly advised in recent years that couples contemplating marriage set aside time to objectively think about planning aspects related to their assets and how they would want things to play out in the event of a marital dissolution....
Prenuptial Agreements and Inheritance Protection
A prenuptial agreement is simply an agreement between people who are about to be married to divide property or other financial interests in a designated way. The popularity of such agreements continues to increase, in the Atlanta area and across the country. There are...
Divorce and the Marital Residence
Someone recently asked on our website: I have been married for 9 years and my name is not on the house we live in, do I have a legal right to any money from the home? Yes, you probably do have a claim to a portion of the equity in the marital residence. To fully...
Complexity, uncertainty mark international child custody case
What law applies? Who gets to decide? That choice-of-law question is a sometimes hard consideration that every law school student confronts and wrestles with at some point in school, and it occasionally spills into the real world of law in matters where multiple...
Fulton County court to rule in singer Usher’s child custody hearing
The recently concluded child custody trial involving the two young sons of internationally known Atlanta R&B singer Usher Raymond and his former spouse, Tameka Foster, spotlights a number of family law issues that are potentially relevant to couples who have gone...
The Recession and High-Asset Divorce: Research Points to Connection
The popular perception may be that upper-income people have no money worries, even if they get divorced. But that perception is often wrong. Psychologists and social scientists are starting to study how post-Great Recession economic trauma affects rich as well as...
Parents, read this: a divorce primer from teachers
For any parent open to instruction on how and how not to act around kids following a divorce, what better person might there be to listen to than an experienced teacher who has had a ringside seat for years as a witness to parent-kid interactions in divorced families?...
Divorce and Sex
Several clients have asked us over the years if they could continue to have sex while the divorce process was underway. Some people might think this is an odd or unusual question but it actually comes up quite a lot. It seems that some people keep having sex even...
Sex and Divorce
A client recently asked us if they could continue to have sex while the divorce process was underway. Some people might think this is an odd or unusual question but it actually comes up quite a lot. It seems that some people keep having sex even though they are in...
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