Family Law
Broader family law topics including marriage, annulment, family violence, adoption, paternity, and prenuptial agreements.
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Does Reconciling Cancel an Attorney's Fee Award in Georgia?
A Georgia attorney's fee award entered before the parties reconcile survives the reconciliation and can still be collected.
Read MoreMoving Back In With Your Ex After a Georgia Divorce
Living with your former spouse again does not undo a Georgia divorce decree or the property it awarded.
Read MoreReconciling Restores Your Marital Status in Georgia
Moving back in together puts a separated Georgia couple back where they started, and it happens without any court order.
Read MoreWhat Reconciling Wipes Out, and What It Does Not
Georgia law sets aside permanent alimony when separated spouses move back in together, but it does not touch a property settlement.
Read MoreYour Children Keep What They Were Awarded if You Reconcile
Reconciling cancels a Georgia spouse's alimony, but the children's rights under the same deed or decree survive untouched.
Read MoreCan You Adopt an Adult in Georgia?
Georgia lets one adult adopt another on the adopted adult's written consent alone, and the decree makes that adult a legal stranger to the former family.
Read MoreRelative Adoption in Georgia
Georgia's relative adoption statute reaches a short, closed list of family members, and everyone else adopts as a third party.
Read MoreStepparent Adoption in Georgia
Marrying a child's parent creates no legal relationship with the child in Georgia, and stepparent adoption is the only way to create one.
Read MoreThird Party Adoption in Georgia
A Georgia third party adoption depends on a surrender that runs to that particular person, and a home study normally has to come before placement.
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