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I'm back after a very fulfilling and, I hope, successful week assisting at a custody trial in Scotland.The trial was in Airdrie, a suburb of Glasgow. I flew into and stayed in Edinburgh, where our local counsel's office is. We met the day I arrived. His name is Jamie...
Justice is supposed to be blind, right? And by that we mean that Justice is impartial, favors no side. While that's true most of the time in varying degrees, some of the time Justice seems more blind to the facts than blind to favoritism. In fact, sometimes it seems...
So, we found the proper venue for our divorce complaint, helping a woman divorce her husband who is in prison. This probably resembles the process that Steve Avery's first wife went through after Avery's wrongful conviction for rape in 1985. Crushed under the weight...
So, by now, unless you've been living under a rock or in a cave on a remote island, you've heard of the NetFlix documentary "Making a Murderer". The docu-series follows the tribulations and trial of Steve Avery, who was wrongfully convicted in 1985 for a rape and...
The landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, legalizing same-sex marriage throughout the country, raises issues that should be discussed with a good marriage and estate planning lawyer in Georgia. Due to same sex couples' prior...
I just finished reading a very interesting article on the impact of Dr. Martin Luther King on International Law and the effect the Civil Rights Movement had on the adoption of several major international human rights treaties. What started in Atlanta had a ripple...
As you gather important documents and prepare to square up financially this year with Uncle Sam, why not give a quick 'tax-time' time audit to your estate plan, too?With your financial information handy, it's easy to gauge just how much your personal situation may...
You and your spouse have been together for five years. You have two beautiful children. Unfortunately, your happily ever after did not have a happy ending. You had to file for divorce. You made the decision to end your romantic relationship and go your separate ways....
Shelia and I spent the latter part of the week at the Georgia State Bar's mid-year convention. The State Bar had asked Shelia and our Savannah attorney, David Purvis, to present to the assembled on The Justice Café, our very low cost, unbundled division of the...
If you co-own your home, it is vitally important to know exactly HOW that ownership is held. Why? Most people think that if they own property together and one of them dies, the deceased person's ownership interest automatically goes to the survivor. Sadly, it's not...