Estate planning is a task many of us tend to postpone, yet it's one of the most vital steps we can take to protect our loved ones and ensure our intentions are carried out. Whether you’re just starting your journey, building a family, or planning for retirement,...
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Georgia Trusts Explained: Your Go-To Guide
When it comes to securing your family’s future, few things are as important as estate planning. Whether you’re a Georgia resident looking into trust options for the first time or revisiting your existing plans, understanding the different types of trusts available can...
Honey, Where Did All the Money Go?
The traditional wedding vow in western weddings goes along the lines of, “I take you to be my wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until parted by...
A Family Legacy- Part Three
Across the room, the case name is announced by a booming voice. As I stand from my spot a few rows back, I watch as the mother of my son and her husband rise together. I can see in her frame her movements are achingly slow, pained. Her husband’s helps her shuffle from...
Family Legacy – Part Two
A few weeks later, the wife sits waiting on the wooden bench. Her bones digging in harshly with each nervous shift, her husband holds her hand loosely as they wait to be called. The room is large and bustling with many people clustered in the gallery seating. The...
Hidden assets: four red flags
Marital property is divided in divorce, a situation that sometimes tempts one spouse to hide assets from the other to keep wealth out of property division proceedings. If you are going through a divorce or see one on the horizon, here are five red flags that your...
Christmas Yet To Come
If ever there were a Christmas to dwell upon Dickens’ timeless offering to tradition, this is it. This is it for a host of reasons, “Are there no workhouses?” is one. But another is the three Ghosts, creating chapters of Scrooge’s life for him to analyze where he has...
What are the parental kidnapping laws in Georgia?
Not all those who face parental kidnapping are those with malicious or irresponsible intentions. Some parents find that they can get in trouble with the law when they are only doing what they believe is best for their children. When you share custody of your children...
Getting your children back when the other parent took them abroad
Sometime during a normal visitation weekend, your former spouse took your children and boarded a plane for Paris. You have custody of your children and did not receive notification about this trip to the city where your ex-spouse grew up.Now you...
Limiting conflict through parallel parenting
Your divorce isn't the amicable one you wanted or that celebrities, friends, families and even acquaintances tell you it should be. Instead, you and your future former spouse would probably have no problem never seeing each other again.The problem is that you...