Divorce

Two recent divorce cases from Richmond County underscore that, while shielding information regarding divorces in Georgia is not common, the details concerning dissolution can and sometimes are sealed by a judge and not privy to the public eye. Not often, though, with...

New research studying marriage, divorce and the decision to live with your partner before marriage has identified a change in trends that previously suggested cohabitation before marriage increased the odds of divorce for a couple. According to the study, engaged...

Although bigamy is certainly not a new crime, discovering it on social networks is something novel. That is what happened recently when a Washington woman discovered on Facebook that her husband had a second wife. After an eight-year marriage, the couple separated but...

Every year about this time, one thing is evident from the piles of paperwork and assorted documents scattered across the desks and tables of scores of millions of Americans: Once again, it's tax time, with that mid-April deadline inching closer every day. Some people...

Ken Altshuler, the president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), confidently makes one prediction about the future: Someday judges in all states, including Georgia, will have recourse to written statutory guidelines to help them decide pet custody...

Given today's rapidly evolving and "smart" technology embodied in mobile devices, it seems almost nostalgic and akin to older times envisioning a hired detective doing the legwork in compiling evidence in a divorce matter. Of course, outside evidence gathering by...

Historically, marriages lasting into a couple's retirement years have a very high success rate. But recent trends are seeing an unusual spike in divorces among older couples. Stranger still is the instigator of the divorce: More and more, the woman in an older married...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to extend programs to prevent domestic violence and to make them more robust. If passed, the legislation could also help protect Georgia victims of domestic abuse who are getting a divorce or dissolving a civil union. The...

The annoying marital conflict of nagging can be as volatile to the union as adultery, according to a recent study. Nagging is defined as the interaction between two people that occurs when one person makes a repeated statement or request that is ignored by the other...

A recent media article chronicles the growing surge of alimony reform currently underway in an ever-increasing number of states, including some -- such as Florida and both Carolinas -- that are in close proximity to Georgia. The ongoing debate and multiple bills that...