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Every year about this time, one thing is evident from the piles of paperwork and assorted documents scattered across the desks and tables of scores of millions of Americans: Once again, it’s tax time, with that mid-April deadline inching closer every day. Some people escape in minutes, with a 1040 EZ. Others takes weeks, with […]
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The writer of a recent divorce-related article pointedly asks a question that most people likely do not consider in the lead-up to a split or in the aftermath of a marital dissolution, namely, this: “Should we have to live in fear of our retailers?” Put another way: In the expanded era of data mining, in […]
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Ken Altshuler, the president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), confidently makes one prediction about the future: Someday judges in all states, including Georgia, will have recourse to written statutory guidelines to help them decide pet custody issues in divorces. That might sound a bit far-fetched to some people, but nowhere near as […]
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Every state, including Georgia, provides for grandparent rights to visitation (and, sometimes, custody) of grandchildren, but the thornier question is how a judge should proceed when a child’s parents are united in opposition to visitation. The states are, flatly, far from united in how they approach that issue, with one commentator terming their disunion a […]
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Commentators on child custody sometimes cite a Georgia case from 1998 to show the changing parameters of factors that are being judicially considered in custody matters. In that case, a woman was awarded full custody of her daughter following divorce. The woman and her boyfriend smoked, and the young girl subsequently developed asthma, necessitating medical […]
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Even successful marriages end when one of their members passes away. To protect yourself against the pitfalls of divorce and death, many financial and marital experts recommend executing a prenuptial agreement. One common misconception about this agreement is that it is only needed to protect significant assets carried into the marriage by either party. Although […]
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Given today’s rapidly evolving and “smart” technology embodied in mobile devices, it seems almost nostalgic and akin to older times envisioning a hired detective doing the legwork in compiling evidence in a divorce matter. Of course, outside evidence gathering by detectives and other parties continues to be an important component in some divorces, but — […]
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Historically, marriages lasting into a couple’s retirement years have a very high success rate. But recent trends are seeing an unusual spike in divorces among older couples. Stranger still is the instigator of the divorce: More and more, the woman in an older married couple is the one calling for an end to the marriage. […]
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Couples obviously do not always fight harder over finances and property matters during a marriage dissolution when a high-asset divorce is in play, but that is certainly a common perception. Where multiple houses and millions of dollars are involved, negotiations often do get protracted and aggressive, with the media being full of stories that have […]
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The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to extend programs to prevent domestic violence and to make them more robust. If passed, the legislation could also help protect Georgia victims of domestic abuse who are getting a divorce or dissolving a civil union. The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA) amends a 1994 act that sought […]
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