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  • In The Interest of A. B., et al., children.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-12
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeannie Altman, (Law Office of Jeannie S. Altman LLC), Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Penny Hannah, Shalen Nelson, Jana Evans, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Saudia Crawford, (Collins Gordon Henry & LLLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Amber Walden, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: A19A0147

    Juvenile court's dependency order must contain appropriate findings of fact and conclusions of law

  • In the Interest of J. C. et al., children.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-03
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jill Morris, (Morris Legal Team, P.C.), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Calandra Harps, Christopher Carr, (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Gary Glover, Robert Kerr, (Glover, Blount & Kerr), Augusta, Shalen Nelson, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee. Amber Mosley, (Child Enrichment, Inc.), Augusta, Kurt Lawton, (Sarah Floyd Blake PC), Augusta, Bill Dean, Roberta Bush, Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: A19A0540

    Court Reverses Juvenile Court Order Transferring Guardianship of Children to Paternal Grandparents Where Juvenile Court, Acting Sua Sponte, Transferred Guardianship Without First Giving Notice to Mother or Considering Statutory Factors for Transfer

  • Naar v. Naar

    Publication Date: 2019-05-31
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara Keon, (Barbara Keon, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christine Stadler, (Attorney at Law), Sandy Springs, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0560

    Attorney Fees In Family Law Dispute Not Warranted Where Party Was Making Good-Faith Attempt to Alter Established Precedential Authority

  • Dingle v. Carter

    Publication Date: 2019-05-24
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Celeste Brewer, (Bell & Washington LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tanya Graham, (The Law Office of Tanya Mitchell Graham, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0081

    Court Affirms Court Order Finding Mother in Contempt for Failing to Notify Father of Overseas Deployment but Rejects Trial Court's Modifications of Support Obligations as Insufficiently Supported by Analyses

  • Morgan et al. v. Morgan

    Publication Date: 2019-05-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Thomson, (Beisswenger & Thomson P.A.), Athens, Richard Tunkle, (English, Tunkle & Smith), Clayton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas Fox, (Fox Firm, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0239

    Grandparents Who Lacked Permanent Custody Bore Burden to Show Parent Should Not Be Granted Custody of Her Child

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    Enforcement of Judgments: A Practitioner’s Guide to Recovery

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  • Long v. Truex

    Publication Date: 2019-05-21
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cherie Long, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Berk, (Berk & Moss, P.C.), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0038

    Order Denying Custody Modification Was Supported by Evidence of Parent's Mental Health Problems

  • Schaffeld v. Schaffeld

    Publication Date: 2019-04-30
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Cunningham, (Attorney At Law), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifton Patty, (Attorney At Law), Ringgold, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1947

    Former spouse was not in a meretricious relationship and was entitled to continue to receive alimony

  • In Re Sierra Leigh Wertzer

    Publication Date: 2019-04-29
    Practice Area: Family Law | Fee Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie O'Neal, Leslee Hungerford, (O'Dell & O'Neal Attorneys), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Morrison, (The Morrison Law Firm LLC), Marietta, Caryn Fennell, Rhonda Smith, Lacey Briasco, (The Law Firm Of Caryn S. Fennell PC), Woodstock, for appellee. Arthur Marateck, (Arthur H. Marateck P.C.), Marietta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: A18A1774

    Incapacitated adult's guardian is not liable for fees charged by guardian ad litem

  • Cook v. Campbell-Cook

    Publication Date: 2019-04-26
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Family Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank Hamilton, Meghan Noblett, (Hamilton Legal Services), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Rowsey, Susan Stelter, (Thomas C. Rowsey, P.C), Roswell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A2146

    Trial Court Sufficiently Stated Specific Findings of Fact As to Violations of Divorce Settlement Agreement That Supported Attorney Fees Award

  • Hill v. Burnett

    Publication Date: 2019-04-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Goss
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Ney, (William Brent Ney, LLC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shanti Nagrani, (Attorney At Law), Alpharetta, Amy Waggoner, (Waggoner Hastings, LLC), Alpharetta, for appellee. Michael D. Thornton, Lakeisha L. Thornton, Stockbridge, for Other Party.
    Case Number: A18A1655

    Court agrees that former same-sex partner's claims for parental rights and visitation were justiciable and reverses attorney fee award against her