Family Law

Georgia parents raising a child alone rely on child support to help meet their child’s needs and provide them with the best possible quality of life. Parents paying child support have a legal obligation to make sure the support gets paid. However, as most everyone...

Divorce is rarely easy for any Georgia couple. Even if you are parting on relatively amicable terms, you are still going to have to divide up some property as part of your divorce, and the property division process may quickly become more complex than you initially...

When one party requests alimony in a divorce, Georgia courts use a series of factors to determine whether it is needed, and, if so, how much should be awarded. Most Georgia divorces are resolved out of court, so judges don’t have to make these decisions in those...

In a Georgia divorce, it is common for there to be disagreements about a litany of aspects of the case. Because finances are always a concern in any family law case, one spouse might want to receive support from the other. This could be for many reasons including...

When you are married, you are truly together with the other person and there are many things that are affected by that intimacy. One of those things is financial responsibility. Even if you are similar to other American couples today who have separate bank accounts,...

One of the more difficult decisions that needs to be made during a divorce is determining child custody. Parents will no longer be living together and so they will no longer be seeing their children every day. It can be difficult to accept that they will need to split...

If you are getting a divorce or separating from your child’s other parent, you will have to come up with a custody arrangement that serves the best interests of your child. Georgia family law courts will consider several factors when making custody determinations...

A gray divorce, which is a marriage dissolution that occurs after age 50, can be difficult for many reasons. While the emotional blow caused by this break up can be tremendous, there are very real financial implications, too. If those financial matters are mishandled,...