• Enlow v. Enlow

    Publication Date: 2019-12-23
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions | Family Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis Cohan, Michelle Wein, Ellis Liu, (Cohan Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glen Enlow, Wrightsville, for appellee. John Burns, (Burns Law Group, PC), Canton, for AM.

    Case Number: A19A1074

    Court vacates summary judgment and rules that the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act may be used to set aside a voidable transfer in a divorce decree

  • Mashburn v. Mashburn

    Publication Date: 2019-12-23
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel Robinson, (Wolford & Robinson), Chattanooga, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rickie Brown, (Attorney at Law), Dalton, Julia Hill, (The Law Office of Rick Brown), Dalton, for appellee. Joel Thames, (Attorney at Law), Dalton, for other party.

    Case Number: A19A1616

    Trial Court Must Consider Recent Evidence Relevant to Questions of Mother's Visitation and Parenting Plan

  • Fyffe v. Cain et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Key, Kayci Timmons, (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Macie, (Attorney at Law), Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1162

    Court reverses trial court order and grants custody of minor child to her parent rather than her grandparents

  • Steen-Jorgensen v. Huff

    Publication Date: 2019-12-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Hughes, (Robert W. Hughes, Jr. & Associates, PC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dewey McKenzie, (Willis McKenzie LLP), LaGrange, for appellee. James Baker, (James G Baker, PC), LaGrange, for other party.

    Case Number: A19A0807

    Court vacates dismissal and remands case for more complete findings on a trial court's declining to exercise jurisdiction over a petition for adult guardianship

  • McCarthy v. Ashment

    Publication Date: 2019-12-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph McCarthy, Acworth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hylton Dupree, Blake Carl, (Dupree & Kimbrough, LLP), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0788

    Court affirms contempt order against a spouse following his failure to make child support payments

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  • Vanterpool v. Patton

    Publication Date: 2019-12-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Manely, David Purvis, (The Manely Firm, P. C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Sanders, (Attorney at Law), Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1108

    Res Judicata Precludes Ex-Wife From Claiming Paternity of Child Born Via IVF; Divorce Decree Deemed There Were No Children at Issue of the Marriage

  • Sullivan v. Harper

    Publication Date: 2019-11-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nancy Jordan, (Warner, Bates, McGough, McGinnis & Portnoy), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eugene Chambers, Paul Duckworth, (Eugene P. Chambers, III, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1629

    Trial Court's Clarification of Terms of Parenting Plan Did Not Constitute Improper Modification of Divorce Decree

  • Dovel v. Dovel

    Publication Date: 2019-11-25
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin Fierman, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Ben Fierman, (Fierman Law Firm), Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Gailey, (The Gailey Law Firm, LLC), Eatonton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1375

    Statutory Award of Attorney Fees Precluded by Alimony Waiver in Settlement Agreement

  • In the Interest of V. G., a child.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-25
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emma Brown-Bernstein, (Fulton County Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Kelly Campanella, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalen Nelson, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Joshlynn Clark, (Law Offices of Rian N. Ervin, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee. Lashawn Mikell, (Fulton County Office of the Child Attorney), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A19A0966

    Court reverses juvenile court dependency order and returns custody of a child to his mother

  • Winchell v. Winchell

    Publication Date: 2019-11-12
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nancy Jordan, (Warner, Bates, McGough, McGinnis & Portnoy), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Johnson, (Johnson Kraeuter, LLC), Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A1531

    Father in divorce case waived his right to challenge trial court's calculation of child support payments