Category: Divorce

Last updated on April 8, 2021

Jeff Landers, a family law author and frequent contributor to Forbes magazine on divorce-related articles, weighed in recently with some interesting information and statistics on what has been trending in the area of divorce in recent years. In starting with the fact that about 45 percent of American marriages end in divorce, Landers notes that […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

If you are truly in love and making every effort to maintain a strong relationship, you do the obvious things. You respect your partner. You work hard to forge common and lasting interests. You support your significant other’s achievements. You are candid about goals, needs, money and other important matters. And you stay off Facebook, […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

“[W]e don’t focus as much on dads as we do on moms.” So states a recent article on the research — or, more accurately, the relative dearth of research — that exists on post-divorce dads. As has been noted, data focusing on the lives of fathers following divorce — their mental health, their well-being, their […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Many persons contemplating a Georgia divorce believe that the process for doing so is standard and monolithic, that is, divorcing parties hire attorneys and litigate all relevant aspects of their dissolution in court and in a formalized manner. Although that is certainly true in many cases and representative of what might be termed the “customary” […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

The historical alimony paradigm in Georgia and throughout the rest of the country has often been noted and explained. Imagine — and many younger persons and couples really can’t — a bygone time when in an overwhelming number of cases husband/dad worked all day outside the house and brought back the family check, while wife/mom […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

“Increased mobility — both personal and career — acts as a pressure valve for backlogged marital discontent.” So says the founder of one divorce-related Internet site, and what he means is this: When times are financially tight, couples in Georgia and elsewhere who might otherwise divorce often stay together longer than intended out of economic […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

One tangential and unfortunate byproduct of some relationships, both ongoing and following divorce or separation, is family violence, especially acts of domestic abuse that are committed by one partner against another, or against children. In Georgia and throughout the rest of the country, much about domestic violence that was kept quiet and shrouded in secrecy […]

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Last updated on August 2, 2024

It is a maxim in family law that every divorce is unique, and that is far from surprising, given the differences that exist in every family. In a certain instance, a couple might be able to end their marriage with relatively few or even no sticking points to negotiate and agree upon in a divorce […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

It is often remarked that men have different issues and concerns during the divorce process than their soon-to-be former wives. Concerns of divorcing men who are also fathers often focus on child custody and visitation, as well as child support and perhaps alimony. Many men who have gone through the divorce process have stated that […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

A case involving a judicial spousal support order following a Georgia divorce decades ago was recently before the state’s Supreme Court, with justices expected to make a final ruling on the matter sometime this summer. The litigants were married more than 50 years ago, in 1958, and divorced 10 years later. Their divorce decree, signed […]

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