If you have been thinking about filing for divorce from your spouse, you may have decided to hold off on your divorce until after the holiday season. This is a highly common approach among couples in Atlanta and across the country, especially if they have children for...
Month: December 2012
Sesame Street tackles divorce
On the long-running children's television show "Sesame Street," it seems that the letter "D" stands for a new word: Divorce. That is because, for the first time in the show's 40-year history, it has produced a series on divorce that aims to educate and empathize with...
Tips for late-in-life divorce, part two
Earlier this week, we wrote a blog post about so-called "gray divorce," which refers to the increasingly-common phenomenon of divorce after the age of 50.A late-in-life divorce can present significant opportunity for personal growth and happiness during the retirement...
Tips for late-in-life divorce, part one
Earlier this year, we wrote a Georgia family law blog post about the increasingly-common trend that is referred to in the media as "gray divorce." In that earlier post, we reported that, although the divorce rate has generally stabilized over the past 20 years, the...
Dividing an Atlanta business in divorce: tax returns
If you and your spouse jointly own or both have an interest in a Georgia small or family-owned business, that entity will likely be a significant factor in your divorce negotiations and decree. As such, it is important that the family court judge presiding over your...
Prenatal paternity tests could change child support laws
In recent months, researchers have begun testing a new paternity test that is able to determine whether a man is the father of a baby long before the baby is born, and it will likely not be long before that test becomes widely used in Atlanta and throughout the...
Can a family court judge ban a dad from having kids?
Recently, a family court judge handed down a very unique order: he forbade a father from having any more children until he could show that he could support the additional child as well as his existing kids. Although this case did not take place in Atlanta, we felt...
How to uncover hidden assets in divorce
When a couple is going through the legal process of divorce, both are required to provide the court with their financial information, such as income, assets, debts and liabilities and all other data. Unfortunately, some spouses refuse or are unable to cooperate with...
