A recent study suggests that if you check your Facebook account too much, your marriage or other romantic relationship may suffer. This is the finding of researchers whose study is to be published in an upcoming Journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social...
Failure to pay child support can be detrimental not only to the child and the receiving parent, but also to the parent who doesn't pay. For example, consider the case of former heavyweight boxing champion and Georgia resident Evander Holyfield. During his boxing...
Very interesting: a recent Gallup poll aimed at testing the waters of contemporary American values found that 68 percent of the 1,535 respondents said that divorce is morally acceptable, while 91 percent said that heterosexual adultery is morally wrong. Those polled...
Mind you, "equitable" is not "equal" in a Georgia divorce. When it comes to property division, a court in Georgia will keep separate property out of the category of marital property, and a 50-50 split is not a foregone conclusion. Separate property might include a...
Part of our law practice is devoted to helping Georgia parents create workable child custody arrangements. Divorce can be an upheaval in a family's life, but there are ways of co-parenting that protect the best interests of children. To learn more about co-parenting...
It is never recommended to operate a motor vehicle if you are under the influence of alcohol or drugs. However, people often mistake or misjudge the amount of alcohol they have consumed at a social gathering. While every circumstance is different during a traffic...
Starting this past Thursday over 250 extra police officers will be in Richmond County assisting the Sheriff's Office in cracking down on impaired and reckless drivers in what has been dubbed "Operation Thunder." The three month campaign is sponsored by the Governor's...
The popular social media service Instagram announced on Monday that its privacy policy would be updated effective January 16, 2013 to include changes that had its users in an uproar. The new terms featured some wording that was interpreted to mean that the application...
In the case of Registe v. State, which was decided on the 5th of this month, the Georgia Supreme Court examined law enforcement's ability to obtain a person's cell phone communications and subscriber information without the person's consent or court order. Georgia...
Legal recreational marijuana laws have begun to pass in states around the country. These measures are arriving subsequent to medical marijuana laws that originated in California in 1996. Today, there are 18 states (including Washington D.C.) that allow the use of...