International Family Law

Imagine finding out that you have been sued in Federal Court. Imagine that the case involves the most important thing in the whole world to you, perhaps even more important than your own life. Now imagine that, at the same time that you find out that there is a case...

I guess you could argue that we are to blame. We made International Family Law cool.I must admit that our arguing and winning a United States Supreme Court case, 9-0 attracted a lot of attention, all of it overwhelmingly positive. It is certainly true that our...

In some ways, I have the sweetest job in the world. I get to help children get back home when they've been taken away from there and I get to help keep children here in the U.S. when they shouldn't be sent away to some foreign country. This is kind of a summary of...

Sometimes in family law we get to save children. Sometimes in family law we get to make law. Sometimes in International Family Law we get to do both. This is one of those times.Our client's child was born with End Stage Renal Disease. She was on dialysis from day...

A subtle but significant difference in laws creates the international family law quandry that surrounds Charlie Gard. If you haven't heard, Charlie Gard is an 11th month old British citizen who suffers from a disease so rare that only 16 people have ever been known to...

When it comes to communicating, perception is often reality. How one side views the other often shapes how they perceive the communications (verbal and non-verbal) that they have with that person. Let's take John and Jane Doe for example: In our first scenario, John...

For the past several years, Tybee Island, just down the road from our Savannah office, has been the site of what's called "Orange Crush." "Orange Crush" is a word-of-mouth event with no official promoters that is predominantly attended mostly by African-American...

Macon Bolling AllenBlack History Month SpotlightEvery week for the month of February, I'm going to be writing a blog post focusing on African American attorneys and the contributions they've made to the practice of law. I've chosen four outstanding attorneys to...

I will never forget that day. It was cold, wet, gray, even dreary and just a few days before Christmas.The couple were gathered with their attorneys and the mediator in the small conference room. They looked across the table at each other with some sadness, some...

It's easy to lose sight of the important things in life throughout the year, but particularly during the holiday season. A time of year that was once nothing but fun as a child can very easily become the most stressful months of the year for adults. End-of-the...