Category: Child Custody

Last updated on April 8, 2021

Anxiety about child custody begins before parents even file the divorce documents. In most cases, both parents love their children and want to preserve the bonds they have already built. Unfortunately, experiencing this type of stress and anxiety can have a negative effect on all of the family relationships, including those parents share with their […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Most of the time, the principal figures in child custody cases are the parents of the children in question. Emotions can run high when parents are pitted against each other when they both want the lion’s share of custody. When one parent passes away, however, the dynamic becomes different — and sometimes more frantic. Such […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

The best interests of the child, as readers may know, is an important consideration in custody determinations. In fact, it is a central consideration. But, as s recent Georgia case illustrates, there are limits on the application of the best interest standard. The case involves a decision delivered by the Georgia Supreme Court in which […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

For sheer complexity in family law, few things would seem to rival a global child custody dispute, especially one involving the kidnapping of a child by one parent who leaves the United States and vows to keep the child outside the country indefinitely. What can a parent remaining in the United States do to recover […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Many things have changed materially in the family law universe in recent years. Marital contracts — both premarital and postnuptial agreements — have gained real traction, for example, as increasingly more couples see the rationale underlying such documents and their strong utility as planning instruments. Family composition is ever-changing, with so-called nuclear families being augmented […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Most judges and lawyers of a certain vintage in Georgia and elsewhere can readily harken back to times when child custody outcomes were often far different from what is the case these days. In bygone decades, there was not near as much fluidity and mobility in the workplace. Typically, dads went off to work and […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Thanksgiving is coming up next week, which means that the holiday season is about to begin in a very big way. Holidays are often a difficult time when you are in the midst of a divorce or have just completed one. If you have children and share child custody with your ex, holidays can be […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Halloween is truly a holiday for the kids. Between the dressing up in costumes and going door-to-door for candy, for many children it is the highlight of their fall. In order for kids to enjoy the holiday though, divorced parents need to be on the same page when it comes to celebrating.  Parents in Georgia […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

At first glance, some aspects of Georgia’s child custody laws might seem a bit complex to a reader trying to grapple with central terms and concepts set out in the state’s relevant statutory enactments. That is immediately understandable, given the specialized vernacular associated with many family law considerations. Take child custodial rights, for example, where Georgia […]

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