Settlement Agreements
Divorce settlement agreements in Georgia, including formation, enforcement, construction, and common issues.
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Severability Clauses in Georgia Divorce Settlements
A Georgia settlement agreement can survive the loss of one promise, but a severability clause has no place once the agreement becomes a divorce decree.
Read MoreThe Doctrine of Merger in Georgia Divorce Settlements
Under Georgia's merger doctrine, negotiations and agreements not written into the divorce decree are presumed merged into it and are not binding on their own.
Read MoreWhat Makes a Divorce Settlement Valid in Georgia?
A Georgia divorce settlement is an ordinary contract that needs the four elements of OCGA 13-3-1 and no special form, but the judge must still approve it.
Read MoreWho Pays the Mortgage After a Georgia Divorce?
A Georgia divorce agreement's mortgage terms are enforced as written: pay on time, meet the refinance deadline, and keep paying your ex after the house is sold.
Read MoreWhy Georgia Courts Favor Divorce Settlements
Georgia law strongly favors settlement agreements in divorce, and a court will generally make an undisputed agreement its own judgment rather than try the case.
Read MoreDefining Cohabitation in Your Alimony Agreement
If a Georgia alimony agreement ends payments on cohabitation without defining it, courts apply the established meaning: living together continuously and openly.
Read MoreHow Georgia Courts Read College Expense Clauses
Georgia courts enforce college expense clauses in divorce agreements as written: 'any and all' means all, and a limit the parents never wrote will not be added.
Read MoreHow Georgia Courts Read Life Insurance Clauses
When a life insurance clause in a Georgia divorce agreement is unclear, courts read it by ordinary contract rules, and what it leaves out decides the case.
Read MoreReading Retirement Clauses in a Georgia Divorce
How Georgia courts read retirement clauses in divorce agreements: a stated share suffices, the agreement's dates control, and a missing comma creates ambiguity.
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