Category: Divorce

Last updated on April 8, 2021

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 couples who lived together before the wedding had similar odds of lasting 15 years in […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

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 never filed for divorce. The man, a former corrections officer, was charged […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

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 escape in minutes, with a 1040 EZ. Others takes weeks, with […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

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 issues in divorces. That might sound a bit far-fetched to some people, but nowhere near as […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

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 detectives and other parties continues to be an important component in some divorces, but — […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

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 couple is the one calling for an end to the marriage. […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

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 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA) amends a 1994 act that sought […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

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 person. When nagging is constant in a marriage, it […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

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 are being passed in various states’ legislatures might not actually seem all […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Women exiting a marriage are doing better financially than in previous years, according to a report recently released by a national research firm. In an era that — to some — might not seem that long ago, women had collectively few job skills or higher education and consequently were left to take low-paying jobs after […]

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