Generally, Georgia law authorizes entry of default judgments against defendants who fail to timely file defensive pleadings in civil actions. That general rule, however, does not apply to defendants in designated domestic relations cases. This article will discuss the consequences of a defendant’s f...
Continuing our periodic series on adultery and divorce, this article focuses on the methods of proving a spouse’s adultery in a divorce action, and the significant changes in Georgia law which have made that task easier to accomplish nowadays.
The year 1982 forms the critical demarcation between t...
Our prior articles discussed the relevance and proof of adultery vis-à-vis asserting grounds for divorce and obtaining permanent and temporary alimony. Yet not every failed marriage suffering from adultery results in a divorce complaint asserting the ground of adultery or in a claim for alimony...
At the time of our prior article on Georgia’s Equitable Caregiver Act (the “ECA”), little if any caselaw had yet addressed its provisions. The ensuing two years, however, have seen several appellate decisions interpret the ECA. It consequently seems appropriate to revisit that statute and discuss...
In litigation involving domestic relations, Georgia judges often invite the parties’ attorneys to submit proposed forms of order, including final orders containing detailed findings of fact and conclusions of law. Instructions regarding a court’s intended ruling at times accompany those invitations....