Domestic Violence

We all want better for our children. Better educations, better jobs, better options, better opportunities, better lives. It's part of our fabric as human beings. Many of us can look back over the generations that have come before us and track a steady upward...

"Smart mouth bitch," her momma screamed at her. "You've backed talked me for the last time."She unclasped her belt and stripped it effortlessly free from the loops. She doubled it up in the tight grasp of her fist. The first blow caught the girl across the back of her...

While driving home this evening, I was listening to NPR interview a woman in Panama City talking about the horrific devastation which all but wiped out that town. The reporter asked her, now that she, her husband and her three year old daughter have lived through that...

A 58 year old Virginia pastor is charged with first degree murder of his wife, his stepdaughter and the stepdaughter's boyfriend on Thanksgiving.  This is domestic violence's end game.A 26 year old, ex soldier, busted into a Texas church on a Sunday morning last...

"To the Moon, Alice," Ralph Kramden would often say, his fist clenched tight under his wife's jaw. Kramden didn't mean, "to the Moon and back" as in, "I love you to the Moon and back." He meant he was going to punch her so hard that he would knock her to the Moon.I...

Before you write to me with your arguments in favor of Domestic Violence laws, hear me out.  I'm writing about something a little bit different.Recently, we represented a fellow who was accused of domestic violence.  We knew that his wife had called the...

Tonight's post on pets and domestic violence is from our newest family law Attorney practicing in Marietta and Atlanta, Megan McClinton. In 2011, a Georgia bill that would have redefined family and domestic violence died on the vine.I was recently reminded...

Is Marital Rape domestic violence is quite a question and is answered by our Gainesville and Lawrenceville Family Law attorney, Jennifer Thuy-Tien McCall.Donald Trump has been all over the news and all over my Facebook newsfeed lately. In one of the more recent...

Tonight's urgent post about domestic violence was written by our Lawrenceville divorce attorney, Brandy Alexander.Domestic Violence. We all have an opinion. Some people think that couples' issues, including violence, should remain between the couple. Other people...

Tonight's post was written by our Atlanta Divorce and Domestic Violence Attorney, Dina Khismatulina.According to the Center for Disease Control's statistics, on average 20 people per minute are victims of physical violence by an intimate partner in the United States....