The Georgia Child Support Commission has some Frequently Asked Questions on Georgia’s New Child Support Guidelines. Thanks to Deborah Johnson, of the DeKalb Family Law Information Center, and Jill Radwin for posting these. 1. When does the new law start? The new law takes effect on January 1, 2007. It will be applied to all…
Too often the parents going through a divorce or custody fight forget how the divorce affects their children. The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers publishes the following article on its website: CHILDREN’S BILL OF RIGHTS WHEN PARENTS ARE NOT TOGETHER Every kid has rights, particularly when mom and dad are splitting up. Below are some…
Supreme Court of Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears presented the 2007 State of the Judiciary speech to the Georgia General Assembly on January 26, 2007. The portion dealing with divorce and family law issues in Georgia is set forth in its entirety below: "I have saved the discussion of family cases for the last…
MSN Money has an article about a new trend of broken marriages where the spouses decide stay together without a divorce for a variety of reasons, mostly financial. In Georgia, a couple can be granted a separate maintenance decree. I have often (somewhat disparagingly) called this "Divorce Light" because the parties and the court can…
In Corvin v. Debter, the was over a provision in the parties’ divorce decree that Husband was to receive $22,000 as his share of the equity in the marital home when Wife either remarried, entered into a meritricious relationship or when the parties’ youngest child turned 18. The record showed that “Wife remarried in 1996,…
In Barton v. Barton, the Supreme Court of Georgia was asked to decide this question: “in placing a value on the stock of a closely-held corporation for purposes of dividing marital property, is the court bound by the value set forth in a buy-sell provision of the stockholder agreement?” The Court found that “Husband owns…
A person seeking a divorce in Georgia must establish jurisdiction. He or she is required to have been a resident of the State for at least six months before a Complaint for Divorce can be filed. The complaint must be filed in the county where the other spouse resides. Typically, this will be the county…
The Family Law section of the State Bar of Georgia has announced that a web-based worksheet version of the child support calculator has just been released, and is available at following website. This is the first release of the web-based electronic worksheet for both judges and lawyers. For the next several weeks there will be…
NEW CHILD SUPPORT guidelines went into effect Monday, but that’s not supposed to provide a basis for parents to seek modification of child support orders. Legislation passed in 2005 said the adoption of the new rules was itself a reason for a parent to ask for a new child support order. But under the law…
When the Georgia legislature first proposed new guidelines in 2005, they were to go into effect in July 2006. When they met in 2006, and passed Senate Bill 382, they delayed the effective date until January 1, 2007. Some of the 2005 bill’s more controversial provisions on visitation adjustments to child support (so-called parenting time…
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