For many Atlanta area couples, the divorce process has been profoundly affected by the Great Recession and its aftermath. The issues vary, of course, from couple to couple. Some separating couples may run into difficulty with selling a house or qualifying for a...
The term "prenup" has become widely known in modern America. Perhaps this is because prenuptial agreements are used in so many celebrity marriages. In any case, a prenup gives a couple about to tie the knot clear guidelines about who would get what if the marriage...
As this blog has noted in prior select posts, Internet social media sites have exploded with relevance across a broad spectrum of family law and divorce-related concerns over the past couple years. Regularly recurring stories underscore how the cavalier use of a site...
We all know parents and children alike have it tough during the divorce process, but not as much attention goes to the grandparents. Yet grandparents are central members of most families, and they can find themselves at the center of conflict and emotional grief when...
Family law experts have increasingly advised in recent years that couples contemplating marriage set aside time to objectively think about planning aspects related to their assets and how they would want things to play out in the event of a marital dissolution....
A prenuptial agreement is simply an agreement between people who are about to be married to divide property or other financial interests in a designated way. The popularity of such agreements continues to increase, in the Atlanta area and across the country. There are...
What law applies? Who gets to decide? That choice-of-law question is a sometimes hard consideration that every law school student confronts and wrestles with at some point in school, and it occasionally spills into the real world of law in matters where multiple...
Someone recently asked on our website: I have been married for 9 years and my name is not on the house we live in, do I have a legal right to any money from the home? Yes, you probably do have a claim to a portion of the equity in the marital residence. To fully...
The recently concluded child custody trial involving the two young sons of internationally known Atlanta R&B singer Usher Raymond and his former spouse, Tameka Foster, spotlights a number of family law issues that are potentially relevant to couples who have gone...
The popular perception may be that upper-income people have no money worries, even if they get divorced. But that perception is often wrong. Psychologists and social scientists are starting to study how post-Great Recession economic trauma affects rich as well as...