Category: Family Law

Last updated on April 8, 2021

When the number 116 crops up in reference to fatalities that have occurred in Georgia, many people might reasonably assume that it is linked to motor vehicle-related deaths or fatalities owing to a public health menace. In fact, it is the scourge of family violence that accounts for those deaths, all of which reportedly occurred […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Our immediately preceding blog post discussed the pernicious and enduring nature of domestic violence across the United States, including in Georgia. We mentioned in that post a program aimed at curbing family violence that is now gaining significant momentum in another state. That initiative seems broadly relevant, and we present its contours here for our […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Domestic abuse in a Georgia home or elsewhere nationally is often like a stick of dynamite waiting to go off. It can happen suddenly and explosively, with the victim in many cases having no idea what set off the charge. Indeed, there is often no precipitating factor involved at all in family violence, and there […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

“If you brought value into a relationship, you should be able to take that value out of it.” So says a divorced man who recently asked for — and received — spousal support following the breakup of his marriage. The man was the lower wage earner in the relationship and spent more time at home […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

In Georgia and nationally, the so-called Great Recession of recent years that has been supplanted to a degree by an economic uptick operative since 2010 can be looked at a couple different ways when it comes to divorce. From the perspective of the research group National Marriage Project, the hard economic climate was actually a […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

County officials of one state seeking to enforce child support obligations point with some pride to a method they say is flatly effective in generating amounts owed by tardy payers, and one that in fact has worked without a hitch well than 90 percent of the time: immobilizing the payer’s car. Some child support advocates […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Who is the father? In Georgia, a legal answer to that question can obviously have lasting and material consequences, and the ultimate “legal” determination might not seem immediately intuitive to some people. In a particular case, a man might want to establish parental rights through a legal determination that he is the father of a […]

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Last updated on November 15, 2021

As with most issues in law, it depends. Contempt is available as a remedy if someone is violating a court order. But, there must be a court order in place to violate. So, if your mediation is court ordered then the answer is yes, otherwise, no. From a practical standpoint, most courts will happily issue […]

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