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  • Geiger v. Allmond

    Publication Date: 2024-06-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Lavoie, (Bruce, Mathews & Lavoie), Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gabriel Cliett, (Attorney at Law), Metter, Jimmy Howell, (Howell Law Group, LLC), Statesboro, Madison Everett, (Gabe T. Cliett, P. C.), Statesboro, for appellee; Dale Busbee, (Busbee Law Group, LLC), Statesboro, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0061

    Court reverses custody award that favored a grandmother over a mother, citing insufficient evidence to overcome parental presumption

  • Gelin v. Welch

    Publication Date: 2024-06-10
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher McCormick, (The McCormick Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Conley, Stephen Steele, (Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, for appellee; Darrell Caudill, (Roach Caudill & Gunn LLP), Canton, Robert Abbott, Heather Logan, (Abbott & Abbott, P.C.), Marietta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0236

    Court affirms custody modification and child support calculations in order that awarded retired father custody and child support, but reverses and remands for income assessment of father

  • Hartman v. De Caro

    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (The Appellate Division - Georgia Public Defender Council), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Patrick Doupé, Ali Pauline Ritch, (Toombs Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Thompson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0323

    Court dismisses appeal to an order granting temporary custody to one partner, finding that it lacked jurisdiction over the appeal, which the other partner had filed directly

  • In the Interest of D. C. S. et al., Children

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph East, (Joe East Law, P.C.), Kingsland, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Emily Harris, (Department of Law), Atlanta, James Chamberlin, (Attorney at Law), Brunswick, Shalen Nelson, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1492

    Court affirms order terminating a mother's parental rights to her two children based on evidence of abandonment, failure of support, and lack of parental care and control

  • In the Interest of K. G. V., a Child

    Publication Date: 2024-04-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Darice Good, (Darice M. Good, LLC d.b.a Good Legal Firm, LLC), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Janelle Williams, (Georgia Wills and Trust), Atlanta, Karen Vandenberg, Lawrenceville, for appellee; LeAnne Hicks, (The Chancey Law Firm, PC), Braselton, Linda McKinley, (Attorney at Law), Winder for other party; James Outman, (Law Office of James B. Outman, LLC), Atlanta, for AM.
    Case Number: A23A1299

    Court vacates denial of maternal grandmother's petition for adoption and remands the case for reevaluation of the child's best interests in view of parental abandonment

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  • McDaniel v. McDaniel et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-18
    Practice Area: Family Law | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Colvin, (Attorney at Law), Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Evans, Fisher Law, (Evans Law Firm), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1310

    Court reinstates ex-wife's malicious prosecution claims against ex-husband and his family members, citing trial court's misapplication of interspousal tort immunity

  • Yntema v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2024-04-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathryn Franklin, (Franklin Family Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lynne Bradley, (Dawn H. Taylor, Attorney at Law), Suwanee, for appellee; Ulice Sauls, (Attorney at Law), Peachtree Corners, Nicholas Martin, (Martin DeMelfi, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A1562

    In a complex dispute over a petition for child custody modification, court modifies speech restrictions and vacates order sealing certain case records

  • In the Interest of H. D. G. H., a Child

    Publication Date: 2024-04-15
    Practice Area: Family Law | Immigration Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake Evans, (The Blake Evans Law Firm), Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Shalen Nelson, Atlanta, Emily Harris, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Cathy Lerow, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A1659

    Court vacates juvenile court's conclusion that it lacked jurisdiction in a dependency and Special Immigrant Juvenile status case and remands for court to make critical findings for minor's status

  • Everett v. Parker

    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Monroe, (John Monroe Law, P.C.), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Parker, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1534

    Court reverses issuance of stalking protective order for insufficient evidence of stalking victim's emotional distress or reasonable fear

  • Crary v. Clautice et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. DeLugas, (National Association Of Parents, Inc. d/b/a Parentsusa), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Jeffrey Rubin, (Rubin Family Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0004

    Court dismisses challenge to constitutionality of grandparent visitation statute and affirms denial of motions for contempt and for fees and expenses that appellant had sought from grandparents