International Family Law

The aggressive lawyer is integral to the composition of our modern adversary system. The idea is, each side has an aggressive lawyer that makes the other side look as sleazy as possible and the judge tries to figure out who disgusts him the least? As regular readers...

What passes for man talk these days? We are told that asserting that you just walk up to women and just kiss them, you don't even wait, and that you grab their genitals is normal, natural, common. It's just locker room talk. It's just locker room behavior.But is it?...

We live in a strange and fast p aced world where events' correlations are unpredictable. Relations between countries could change overnight. For example, Great Britain's recent decision to leave the European Union will be the beginning of major geopolitical changes -...

Last week, I found myself deep in the heart of Tennessee, trying an international divorce case. There is no one else who actually handles international family law and divorce cases full time in the south eastern United States. A lot of attorneys would like to, and...

Divorce and Contempt trials happen when people do not agree. They need the services of the neutral, the judge to decide an issue for them. They have been unable to decide it for themselves. So what do you do when a party says, "The Judge can't Order that. I don't...

We have three boys. All the boys were/are quite involved in sports. When the boys would complain about a bad call, one ofmy wife's favorite sayings was that a player has to play above the umpire. Don't give the umpire a chance to call a close play. He can't call a...

We knew we had a player. We just didn't know how much he played. First order of business, we assembled our team."We need to know this guy," I told our folks. "We need to know him inside and out. Who is he? Where is he from? What does he do? What has he done? Who has...

I hope you all had a great restful weekend and enjoyed spending time with your families. As you know, The Manely Firm is immersed in international law and that means enmeshed in our inte1national communities. Atlanta is a hot bed of international activity. A lot of...

She barely made it inside the hotel room door before he enveloped her. Their clothing flew across the room as though torn from them by a hurricane. She couldn't catch her breath, but then, she didn't want to.Their afternoon stretched into the evening, stretched into...

The next month was blissful. It felt as though they spent more time in each other's arms than out of them. When she could rearrange work, she was with him. When she could rearrange home, she was with him. They did things together she had never heard of before. He took...