Four years ago a giant among men came to work for me in the practice. He came to run our Savannah operation, to establish us on the Chatham County map in family law.In the four years since, he has established himself as a bedrock in Savannah divorce and family law,...
Month: August 2017
Gotcha Custody
When families begin to fracture, there is often a period of separation where the family is no longer intact, but there is also no court order regarding child custody, visitation, support, and the like. In other words, no enforceable rules by which the parents will...
The Trial Practice of Taylor Swift
If you've been following the news, you've likely heard about litigation surrounding Taylor Swift, who was being sued for defamation by a radio DJ. Swift alleged that this DJ had grabbed her, under the skirt, in 2013. Not wanting to make a national news story of the...
How can establishing paternity after death help a child?
Could you imagine waiting 60 years before finding out who your father was? Most people wouldn't. Unless, of course, your father were someone famous, like the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.When the news broke in June regarding a Spanish judge's decision to...
Back to School, Children
It's that time of year again! It's Back to School for our children, only this year without the benefit of a tax free weekend. But that's another story for another day. As a society, we mark the passage of childhood in a number of ways, and the progress from one school...
Divorce: The Beginning of the End
We consult with thousands of people each year about their lives and their circumstances and the desire to divorce or their revulsion about divorce or their probabilities of divorce. Add to that that I've been practicing family law for 28 years. With that kind of data...