Keon Family Law

A Georgia statute permits awards of legal fees to a party in divorce or alimony cases, or in actions for contempt of divorce or alimony judgments. Yet, while the statutory language imposes no different requirements for a fee award in a contempt proceeding than in an original divorce/alimony case, in...

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A prior article explored the use of imputed income for determinations of child support, alimony, and attorney’s fees in Georgia divorce actions. As that article discussed, Georgia law has permitted utilization of a party’s earning capacity, rather than gross income, to determine the amounts of chi...

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Georgia law permits the filing of actions to modify a former spouse’s alimony obligations under two circumstances: a change in the income and financial status of either former spouse; or the voluntary cohabitation of the alimony recipient with a third party in a meretricious relationship.(1) In proc...

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In Georgia domestic actions, as with all legal areas, spouses and parents at times seek to assert claims or defenses which existing authorities do not expressly support or which contravene settled law. The party asserting those novel claims or defenses typically expects to lose at the trial court le...

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A prior article discussed the use of temporary attorney fee awards in divorce and alimony actions as a safe, though uncertain, means to secure sums needed to pay for legal services. Where an opposing spouse will not consent to the use of the parties’ liquid assets to pay attorneys’ fees, the filin...

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