Category: Child Custody

Last updated on April 8, 2021

Here is a telling statistic for persons in family law disputes who aren’t particularly careful about their social media presence: According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, online posts — mostly from Facebook — were introduced into evidence in about 80 percent of all divorce cases over the past five years. We have mentioned […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

When we last visited the Halle Berry child custody dispute, it was to note that Berry and her ex-partner Gabriel Aubry were locked in a court battle over parenting arrangements and Aubry’s access to the couple’s young daughter. Berry and Aubry — who were never married — split up last December, with Aubry quickly thereafter […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

When it comes to child custody and questions regarding the mental or physical capacity of one or both of the parents, family courts throughout Georgia and the rest of the country have wide-ranging powers to control, compel and make orders. “Courts have wide authority to order just about anything once physical or mental capability comes […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

It is certainly hard to keep Charlie Sheen off the airwaves, even with the cancellation of his popular television show. And although a legal blog focused on providing important family law information across a wide spectrum to clients and would-be clients might be accused of giving in a bit to celebrity fodder when it discusses […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Divorcing or separated parents often disagree about parenting styles. The issues that resulted in the break-up of the relationship frequently overflow into the long-term cooperation required for shared parenting. Common or not, child custody disputes are stressful, emotional and expensive for parents, and they can be traumatic for children. Is there an amicable path to […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

The case of a South Carolina woman with a profound disability shows us just how difficult it could be to balance parental interests with the best interests of the children in child custody disputes after a life-changing event. 34-year-old Abbie D. and her ex-husband Dan have four-and-a-half year-old triplets. Unfortunately, a series of medical errors […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Lisa Clark Gonzalez, the Gainesville woman sent to prison for having sex with and then marrying her son’s then-15-year-old friend Adrian Gonzalez, may be one step closer to getting shared child custody rights over the couple’s 4-year-old son. The Gonzalezes have been seeking custody since shortly after the child was born, when Lisa was in […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Here’s a reminder not to judge a legal case before all the facts are in: According to recent reports by the celebrity website TMZ.com and the American Bar Association’s ABA Journal, Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva has had 40 lawyers so far during the course of the couple’s child custody dispute. Mel Gibson and Oksana […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

An international divorce and child custody dispute involving a former UGA professor was heard last week by the Georgia Supreme Court. The case involves former Italian professor Silvia Larese and her divorcing husband Robert Bellew, who is currently a graduate student at UGA. The main question in the case is whether their divorce case should […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

A divorced father was banned by a Fulton County judge today from maintaining any contact with his 3-year-old son. The father is up against a first-degree child cruelty charge based on his alleged smothering of the boy years ago as an infant.The situation was given a shot in the arm last week when it was […]

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