Category: Family Law

As a family law firm, we won’t seek to hide the reality that many terms that centrally mark our profession can be more than a bit slippery and confusing. In fact, we will readily admit it. Legal language can be flatly bewildering to clients, which is why we have stated on our website that “we […]

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The battle over same-sex marriage continues. In what a recent media article termed a “dramatic ruling,” one of the country’s federal appeals courts held last week that various existing bans on gay marriage in states under its appellate jurisdiction are constitutional and can remain intact. That ruling contrasts mightily with recent judicial outcomes in other […]

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At a high policy level, the Roman Catholic Church just concluded a quite noteworthy week, with both an interim report and then a final document on the same subject matter issuing following a days’-long mass meeting of about 200 bishops from around the globe. Based on perusal of myriad media reports describing happenings last week […]

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There are a lot of hot-button topics on display in the realm of family law these days. Alimony-centered concerns are front and center in several states. The rights of fathers in adoption matters have been underscored in several prominent cases. Stories regarding marital contracts — both prenuptial and postnuptial agreements — never seem to stray […]

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There are differing views, of course, as to what constitutes the predominant health concern in the United States. Some people might reasonably weigh in with the view that heart-related diseases top the bill. Others might just as easily point to cancer concerns. The U.S. Surgeon General has an opinion on the subject, and he opts […]

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Any television watcher in Georgia or elsewhere across the country with avid viewing habits well notes that a highly singular and specific subject has been dominating the airways recently, on both local and national programs. That subject is domestic violence, which has been a lead story on news broadcasts and talk shows for several weeks […]

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In a nutshell, here’s what most disturbs writer and psychologist Robert E. Emery about a perceived irrationality he sees in family law. On the one hand, and regarding a given issue (say, for purposes of discussion, child rearing), a judge will assume a role of passivity and refuse to invoke judicial power. He or she […]

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In many families across the United States, including in Georgia, grandparents play a central and loving role in the lives of their grandchildren. It is thus far from surprising that, when things break down in a family, the grandparents often step forward to claim a right to maintain a close and meaningful relationship with their […]

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A recent domestic abuse incident involving a federal judge from neighboring Alabama that is alleged to have occurred late last Saturday night in a downtown Atlanta hotel spotlights intimate-partner violence that many commentators say is at troublingly high levels across the country. The judge was arrested by the Atlanta Police Department after his wife told […]

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Why do many divorcing persons in Georgia and elsewhere across the country automatically state a desire to proceed to the court system when they decide to dissolve their marriage? One family law attorney points to what he sees as a primary reason, with his view likely echoed by many other divorce lawyers. He says that […]

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