Atlanta, GA
Divorce and separation Lawyer at Atlanta, GA
Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation, Family ... +5 more
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Appellant wife sought review of an order of the Cobb County Superior Court (Georgia) that granted appellee husband's motion to enforce an oral settlement agreement as to child support.
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Established an opportunity interest that a biological father must exercise within a certain time frame or he forfeits all rights to the child born out of wedlock. Court held that unwed fathers possess ... an opportunity interest protected by due process of law in custody of their children in a legitimation action; and, if timely and diligently pursued and not abandoned, this opportunity interest will lead an unwed father to enjoy the benefits of custody and entitle him to equal treatment under law accorded other parents. The case was remanded to determine if the biological father had abandoned his opportunity interest, because there was conflicting evidence on that issue.
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Further defined and clarified active management of separate property from In re: Baby Girl Eason to include the fact that discussions and decisions made between spouses regarding investment and/or reti ... rement decisions for future planning can be considered as active management for purposes of becoming marital versus separate.
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Court affirmed a trial court’s entry of a Final Judgment and Decree of Divorce where the husband refused to attend a specially set trial. The trial court properly struck the husband’s answer and counte ... rclaim as a sanction for failing to appear; and although the trial court barred the husband’s attorney from presenting evidence on the husband’s behalf, he was permitted to cross-examine the wife’s witnesses and challenge her evidence.
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The trial court’s order refusing to enforce a Prenuptial Agreement was vacated because the Court committed legal error by refusing to consider evidence outside the four corners of the Agreement in dete ... rmining whether a full disclosure of income, debts, and assets had occurred.
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The Court affirmed the portion of the trial court’s contempt order, which clarified the parties’ Parenting Plan to allow the father to bring his new wife with him to feedback sessions with the child’s ... therapist. The Court of Appeals also affirmed the trial court’s holding the mother in contempt for making disparaging comments about the father, because the trial court has broad discretion in determining whether its orders have been violated.
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The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s Summary Judgment Order, which determined that the ex-husband transferred ownership of a life insurance policy to his ex-wife via an Ownership/Ass ... ignment Designation, and that the ex-wife accepted the transfer, pursuant to the life insurance policy’s language governing transfers of ownership, which is to be construed as a layman would read it.
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