Contested And Uncontested Divorce

Across the board, divorces have been on an upward trend in recent years. Experts speculate many different reasons for that. But one notable demographic stands out above the others: grey divorcees. These divorcees are over the age of 50. Despite that, they decide to...

Finances can easily become a matter of contention in a divorce. When people realize a divorce is in their future, they should go over their finances to make preparations. People should know the fine details of their finances before the divorce takes place. According...

An uncontested divorce is where you sit down with your spouse and work out the dissolution of your marriage. You would sit down with your spouse and discuss who is going to have primary custody of the children, how the child support is going to be paid, how the assets...

While most couples in the Atlanta area do not enter into a marriage thinking that there is a good chance it will end in divorce, statistics show that divorce is common. There are numerous reasons why marriages end, but there are certain signs that experts determine to...

People in Georgia who carry large amounts of debt, including student loan debt, may be more vulnerable to divorce than those who are debt-free. Three times more people have more than $50,000 in student loan debt than they did a decade ago. The average student loan...

Some people in Georgia who are getting a divorce may need to get new medical and life insurance. Often, higher-earning spouses have the lower-earning spouse on an employer-sponsored health insurance plan. The spouse may have the option to extend the plan through...

With the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Georgia parents can no longer use the personal exemption when filing their tax returns. However, they can take twice the amount for the child tax credit, $2,000 instead of $1,000, along with the Dependent Care Credit....

When Georgia entrepreneurs start a business, they can include language in the company's organizing documents that specifies that if there is a divorce, the business cannot be transferred to their spouse. However, if the person has already started the business, a pre-...

A Georgia resident who is on the fence about getting divorced may be silently encouraged to separate by their friends. If friends have already gone through divorce, one might see that separation can be a way to move forward as opposed to a bad way to end a...