Monthly Archives: March 2008

Forget silver anniversaries: Many couples grapple with ‘gray divorce’

It’s been nearly a year since Sherman Smith’s 33-year marriage ended in a divorce that, he said, his ex-wife wanted after she realized she didn’t love him in the same way anymore. "A divorce is kind of like a death, but she’s still there and I can’t have her," said Smith, 55, of Elliottsburg, Pa….

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Glossary of Estate Planning Terms

This is your guide to understanding estate planning, including revocable living trusts, living wills, powers of attorney, and asset protection. A/B Trust – A type of Revocable Living Trust used by married couples. In this type of living trust, two trusts (trust A and trust B) are created at the time the first spouse dies….

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Client Bill of Rights

Every client deserves these five guarantees from their lawyer: 1. The Right to Have All Phone Calls Returned Promptly. It still amazes me when people tell me their lawyer will not call them back at all.  One sweet lady recently told me her lawyer had not called her back IN SIX MONTHS worth of trying….

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Two judges recuse from Richardson divorce-sealing case

According to today’s Fulton County Daily Report, in a story by Andy Peters, two of the three Superior Court judges in the Paulding Judicial Circuit have recused from a citizen’s effort to unseal court filings in House Speaker Glenn Richardson’s divorce case. The report is reprinted below: Two of the three Superior Court judges in…

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Nice article about a colleague

A colleague of mine, Kurt Kegel, of Davis Matthews and Quigley, a fellow divorce and family law attorney in Atlanta, was the subject of a recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution focusing on people who help other people through difficult times in their lives. It is no secret to those of us practicing in…

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More couples hiding wealth from each other

Honesty may be the best policy for a successful marriage. But when it comes to divorce, couples are becoming increasingly devious in concealing their wealth from each other. One fifth of couples who divorced last year tried to conceal their assets or income from their spouse – a figure which has doubled since 2006 –…

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Safe Internet use | For those divorcing

Jeanne Hannah of the Updates in Michigan Family Law Blog has posted a wonderful list of tips for something many people fail to consider when they are researching online for information about a divorce and their spouse has access to the same computer: Whether you are researching the Internet while doing pre-divorce planning, in a…

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China says no immediate changes to one-child policy

BEIJING: China will not consider changing its one-child policy for at least a decade for fear that a population surge could spark social and economic instability, the nation’s top family planning official said in an interview published Monday. Zhang Weiqing of the State Population and Family Planning Commission told the official China Daily newspaper that…

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Bishop Weeks pleads guilty to aggravated assault

Bishop Thomas W. Weeks and his wife, evangelist Juanita Bynum, embrace after he pleaded guilty to assaulting her in August. The couple is going through a divorce. ‘My emotions got the best of me,’ he says Bishop Thomas W. Weeks pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault in the summertime attack on his estranged wife, national…

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Ga. high court: Fla. lawyer doesn’t have to pay $462K in back child support

Successful Florida lawyer Willie Gary cannot be held in contempt over a child-support dispute involving twins he fathered with an Atlanta woman, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday. Gary, who is married with four children, had a relationship with Diana Gowins when she lived in Florida in 2000. In July 2002, Gary reached an out-of-court…

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