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...
Family Law
Family violence, Part 1: an evil that can be hard to respond to
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...
Shifting trend in spousal support: more ex-husbands collecting
"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...
The Great Recession and recovery: Effect on divorce rates
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...
Focus: Child support non-payers in one state literally get the boot
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:...
Focus: Paternity issues and processes in Georgia
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...

