Personal finance is one of the hottest topics on the Internet today. Thousands of blogs, podcasts and apps are at your service to help you cut your spending and invest your savings. If you don't have time to analyze all that information, there's one step you can take...
It is certainly an extreme and outlier type of case in the realm of child support, but it is not without precedent and could gain some traction in other jurisdictions if it survives legal challenge on appeal. In a nutshell, the case holding -- issued recently by an...
Research findings increasingly indicate that, for many couples, financial strain is the predominant catalyst for marital difficulties and, ultimately, divorce. That might not strike all that many people as surprising, although a number of other factors -- lifestyle...
associated with the criminal justice system, especially incarceration, and actively exploring diverse alternatives to it that proponents say reduce recidivism, improve life outlooks for offenders and cost society significantly fewer dollars. One such alternative is...
Every year around this time, newly divorced persons across the country, including in Georgia, confront a novel and, for some, frustratingly complex, experience: filing taxes for the first time in many years as an individual and not in tandem with another person as a...
Every parent knows that children's needs for parental attention change as they age. Infants and toddlers demand constant care; school-age children want a little more independence, and teens like to test rules and boundaries. Family therapists stress that, when a...
For many people, few things tug at the heart more than child custody cases that drag on and are marked by lack of clarity regarding an outcome that is clearly in a child's best interest. Many divorce cases featuring child custody issues are devoid of such concerns,...
Two high-profile and high-asset divorce cases centrally featuring property division illustrate the various ways in which couples negotiate divorce settlements and reach solutions in their divorce agreements that allow for them to move forward. One such divorce...
Single dads who have custody of their children don't get the same breaks at work as single moms. That's the conclusion of a single father who has published an account of the subtle discrimination he encounters in the workplace, where single moms enjoy lenient...
Georgia parents contemplating divorce often and for obvious reasons are centrally concerned with matters surrounding child support, with distinct and quite separate issues coming into play for a parent seeking support and the parent who will be tasked to pay it,...