Keon Family Law

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...

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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...

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Before entering a final judgment granting or denying alimony, a Georgia trial court must hear evidence of the factual cause of the parties’ separation, and must consider evidence of the conduct of each party toward the other.(1) If it is established by a preponderance of the evidence that adultery o...

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The filing of a divorce action and the separation of the parties do not necessarily prevent consideration of end spousal misconduct which led to the dissolution of the marriage. Adultery, cruel treatment, and harassment that preceded a divorce action can continue throughout the proceedings. The issu...

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Adultery not only ruins marriages, but it also has legal significance in divorce.

Adultery by either spouse during the marriage creates fault grounds for a total divorce under Georgia law.(1) Adultery in that context is defined as sexual intercourse with a person of either sex other than one’s sp...

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