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Calling it “the exception, not the rule,” one writer on marital dissolution noted in a recent article that a family owned business surviving a divorce is a relative rarity. There are of course many reasons why a business managed by one or both spouses prior to a divorce does not often continue to thrive — […]
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The passage of a law in Georgia approving marijuana use in some prescribed fashion for persons suffering from medical ailments would obviously cast ripples across a broad sphere of social and legal concerns, including family law. In any discussion centered on medical marijuana use and legislation in the state, though, talk is defined in terms […]
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The state of Georgia does not legally recognize either same-sex marriage or same-sex divorce. As we have previously noted, LGBT couples are certainly not well protected under state laws when it comes to family law matters. A recent media article laments the lack of consideration given to gay and lesbian parents in many areas of […]
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A natural concern of any single adult male in Georgia who is having relations with a woman and wants to ensure his rights in the event he fathers a child is that he be legally acknowledged as a dad following a pregnancy. Many unmarried men understandably have concerns with paternity and legitimation, wanting to know […]
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The term “epidemic” often finds its way into discussions on domestic violence, and for reasons that are manifestly apparent. No locale is immune from family violence, nor does domestic abuse spare any demographic group, whether gauged by race, wealth, marital status or any other measuring device. Gender, of course, is something that is most notable […]
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When love is in the air, young couples in Georgia and everywhere else across the country tend to follow its sweet song. That song can indeed be riveting, in fact, so compelling that it blocks out thoughts of everything save romantic ardor and getting that marriage certificate signed without delay. In retrospect, it might not […]
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So-called “stay-at-home” moms were far from being a rarity across the United States in previous generations. Indeed, they comprised the norm, with most women remaining at home to manage the household and care for children in lieu of entering the work force. In fact, it is estimated that only about 37 percent of women between […]
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Most of our readers in Georgia and elsewhere have likely heard the term “cookie cutter” as applied to some protocol or process, denoting it as a straightforward and standard technique that broadly — rather than individually — applies to some application. Divorce is not a process to which a cookie-cutter blueprint should apply. So says […]
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“Conscious uncoupling.” That is the word choice employed by actress Gwyneth Paltrow recently to relate the news that she and her husband, rock star Chris Martin, are divorcing after a number of years. Paltrow and Martin have two children. We don’t normally include much in the way of celebrity-related divorce articles in our blog, although […]
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For an American citizen living in Colorado, Dennis Burns commands a singular — even exceptional — knowledge of the Argentine court system. In fact, he has been personally involved over the past several years with successive rungs of the country’s appellate judiciary, culminating in a ruling by the Supreme Court of Argentina on Valentine’s Day […]
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