by Patty Shewmaker | Aug 28, 2022 | Alimony, Child Custody, Child Support, Child Visitation Rights, Divorce, Equitable Division, Family Law, General Information, Strategy and Preparation
Fulton County in Georgia has 20 Superior Court Judges. Only 4 hear family law matters. No other counties in Georgia (there are 158 excluding Fulton) handle family court cases like Fulton. The county is also very long (113 miles) and thin. They have a unique process to...
by Patty Shewmaker | Aug 25, 2022 | Alimony, Child Custody, Child Support, Child Visitation Rights, Divorce, Equitable Division, Family Law, General Information, Strategy and Preparation
Attorneys Steve and Patty Shewmaker take on the subject of family court in Georgia, and provide some insights into how to “navigate” the courts. When it comes to family court, legislatures in most states have added more and more complexity to the process...
by Patty Shewmaker | Mar 21, 2022 | Child Abuse, Child Custody, Child Visitation Rights, Criminal Law, Divorce, Family Law, Hague Convention
The Hague Convention on International Child Abduction set out the objective of promptly returning children who have been wrongly removed from their country of habitual residence. Court systems and administrators should handle these cases expeditiously, preferably...
by Alexa Lewis | Mar 12, 2022 | Child Abuse, Child Custody, Child Visitation Rights, Criminal Law, Divorce, Family Law, Hague Convention
In Part 2 of the series, Patty Shewmaker and Alexa Lewis talked about how the complexities of international child abduction and the rights of the abducting parent enter into these cases, what their affirmative defenses could be, and how they are applied under the...
by Alexa Lewis | Oct 1, 2021 | Child Abuse, Criminal Law, Divorce, Family Law, General Information, Strategy and Preparation, Temporary Protective Orders (TPOs)
In this third video in a series on Temporary Protective Orders (TPOs), Steve Shewmaker and Alexa Lewis discuss what happens after a court ordered TPO is granted. What length of time is it in effect? What are the parameters of the ruling? What if there are children...
