When [did] the new child support guidelines take effect? The new guidelines [were] effective January 1, 2007 based on Senate Bill 382 of the 2006 Georgia Legislative Session. The Income Shares guidelines originally were scheduled to be effective July 1, 2006 but this is no longer true. The January 1, 2007 date appl[y] to all…
Name on license, Social Security card must match, state says Attention Georgia married women: If you took your husband’s last name, your driver’s license might be canceled. In an effort to comply with state and federal laws, the state Driver Services Department has been checking its database against the records at the Social Security Administration….
What a lawyer thinks of as a “perfect client” in the domestic relations sense is a client who helps the process of the dissolution, custody, or support matter along. We know how hard this process is to be going through, but it can be a much more difficult process the longer it drags on —…
Helping children cope with divorce is important because children model future behavior on current experiences. Whether we like it or not, our children watch every thing we do, and tend to remember for a long time. Even if your children are young and take everything you say as the truth, eventually they will grow up…
Don’t stock up on silver anniversary cards. More than half the Americans who might have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversaries in the year 2000 were either divorced, separated or widowed, according to a census survey released Wednesday. It was the first time since at least World War II that married people had a less than…
Fellow blogger Diana Skaggs, of the Divorce Law Journal blog, alerted me to an article from this weekend’s New York Times, which appears below: A word of extreme caution is in order here. I have published articles here and here and here previously about how many of the techniques mentioned in this article violate state…
An important question I ask of all clients is whether they have a secure e-mail address and a "safe place" to receive mail from my office. When spouses are in the beginning phases of the divorce process, accidentally alerting the other spouse to divorce plans can have a negative impact ranging from tipping one’s hand…
Janet Langjahr of the Florida Divorce Law Blog posted this article about tax issues in divorce cases: Divorcing couples always have at least basic questions about the impact of divorce on their taxes and their tax status. Tax status:Everything depends on whether your divorce was final on December 31st of the tax year in question….
The Georgia court system has five classes of trial-level courts: the magistrate, probate, juvenile, state, and superior courts. In addition, there are approximately 350 municipal courts operating locally. There are two appellate-level courts: the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction Magistrate Court Magistrate courts are county courts that issue warrants,…
Donald L. Pitman III, a family law attorney at Barron & Stadfeld of Boston, wrote the following article in his Legal Notes column of the Georgetown (Massachusetts) Record: The very mention of the word “divorce” fills many with sensations varying from dread to shame. Scenes from movies such as “Kramer vs. Kramer” have reinforced the…
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