Lawrenceville, GA
Divorce and separation Lawyer at Lawrenceville, GA
Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation, Child Custody ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Obtained Primary Physical Custody of 2 children for Father
Divorce Case with 2 minor children. 3-day trial heard in Juvenile Court of Gwinnett County. Guardian Ad Litem recommended that mother have primary custody.
OUTCOME: Custody of child awarded to client
7 year old boy living with mother in Georgia. Out of state father had been supporting child, but was not allowed to take child out of state for visitation. Mother was abusive. Child now lives with fa ... ther in his home.
OUTCOME: Final Order granting visitation
Grandparent visitation obtained for paternal grandmother living out of state who had been refused contact with her two grandchildren.
OUTCOME: Won custody for mother
Custody case in Juvenile court. Child had been removed from mother's home during case at the suggestion of the Guardian. I was then hired by mother. Not only successfully persuaded Children's Servic ... es to return child to mother, but eventually won custody case.
OUTCOME: Award of grandparent visitation
Grandparent visitation obtained for paternal grandmother who had been refused contact with her grandson.
OUTCOME: Unfavorable Trial Decision Reversed on Appeal
Client appealed a finding by the trial court that her mother and step father were entitled to retain custody of her 2 children based upon a consent order from Alaska. While the Georgia Court of Appeal ... s stated that the Georgia trial court could hear a change of custody case, the Appellate Court stated that the trial court must use the proper standard of proof, and it could not award custody to the grandparents without a finding that the mother was not fit to have custody. The case was reversed and remanded to the trial court for a proper custody determination that followed the Appellate Court's ruling.
OUTCOME: Won custody battle for mother of 3 children
After a lengthy battle over a year and a half, successfully defended father's attempt to gain custody by claiming parental alienation, while fending off testimony of hired forensic psychologist, former ... treating psychologist, and court appointed psychologist.
OUTCOME: Favorable Trial Decision Affirmed on Appeal
Client defended appeal from Husband who contests the divorce court's jurisdiction based on the residency of the two children whom he alleges resided in Ethiopia at the time the divorce was filed and at ... the time the divorce decree was issued in 2006. Pretermitting whether these allegations are true, Husband's challenges to the divorce court's jurisdiction were rendered moot by the trial court's entry of the 2010 custody modification and parenting plan order. During the 2010 custody modification proceeding, it was uncontested that the children resided in DeKalb County, Georgia, as did Wife, and Husband submitted himself to the personal jurisdiction of the court when he filed his modification pleading and appeared for the hearing on same. Accordingly, the trial court's denial of Husband's motion to vacate the 2006 divorce decree was not erroneous and the judgment is sustained.
OUTCOME: Unfavorable Trial Decision Reversed in Part on Appeal
Ex wife was awarded attorney fees in trial court. Client did not have an attorney in trial court. Judge did not have statutory authority to award attorney fees.
OUTCOME: Unfavorable Trial Decision Reversed by Supreme Court
Client's former wife filed petition to have former husband held in contempt regarding divorce decree that was entered in another county. The Superior Court, Cherokee County, denied former husband's mot ... ion for judgment on the pleadings or, in the alternative, to transfer case to county where decree was entered more than 10 years before. Former husband filed interlocutory application, which was granted. Holding: The Supreme Court held that trial court did not have jurisdiction to hear contempt.
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