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  • 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

  • In the Interest of M. J. H., a child.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-15
    Practice Area: Family Law | Immigration Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emily Davis, (Ross & Pines LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: April Hall, Austell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1764

    Court affirms custody and dependency decisions in complex international family law case, finding that returning a child to his home country would be in his best interests despite known risks

  • In the Interest of R. E. Z. B., a child.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Family Law | Immigration Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebeca Salmon, (Attorney at Law), Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cathy Lerow, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1775

    Court affirms finding of dependency and an award of custody, but remands the case for specific findings on a child's special immigrant juvenile status

  • Backman v. Backman

    Publication Date: 2022-07-27
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathy Portnoy, (Portnoy, Garner & Nail, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Beverly Cohen, (Attorney at Law), Roswell, Norman Cuadra, (Norman H. Cuadra, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0428

    Immigrant's sponsor had a federal support obligation notwithstanding a waiver of support in a prenuptial agreement, but that obligation was limited by her income

  • The State v. Aduka

    Publication Date: 2018-04-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Immigration Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Anna Green Cross (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Akintunde A. Akinyele (Akinyele Law Firm LLC), Decatur; Akinwunmi Doherty (The Doherty Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1717

    The Court reversed the grant of appellee's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, finding that the trial court erred in ruling that plea counsel was deficient in advising his noncitizen client that he could be deported, rather than informing him that he would be deported if he entered the plea in question, because the law was not succinct and straightforward at the time.

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  • Alford et al. v. Hernandez et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-11-13
    Practice Area: Education Law | Immigration Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josiah Heidt (Georgia Department of Law, Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta; Christopher Carr (Attorney General), Atlanta; Annette Cowart (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta; Russell Willard (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Kuck (Kuck Immigration Partners LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1124

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in their mandamus action seeking to compel state universities to deem them eligible for in-state tuition benefits while they were enrolled in Georgias public universities and colleges.

  • Diaz v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-10-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Immigration Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Reba (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrea Alabi (Assistant District Attorney), Lawrenceville; Daniel Porter (District Attorney Gwinnett Justice & Administrative Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1333

    Defendant could not show that he was prejudiced by his attorney's alleged deficiency in failing to properly inform him of the immigration consequences of pleading guilty to possession of a controlled substance and he, therefore, could not prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claim and the trial court properly denied his motion to withdraw his guilty plea.