By Nate Davis Two weeks after being accused of not fully paying his $5,000 per month court-ordered child support, free agent WR Terrell Owens has ponied up. T.O. has been providing support to Melanie Paige Smith for more than four years. She filed a complaint in Fulton County (Atlanta) Superior Court when he failed to […]
While prenuptial agreements aren’t for everyone, they are an absolute necessity for some people. I cannot tell you how often I have someone sitting in my office surmising “I wish we had signed a prenup.” As you may or may not know, prenuptial or antenuptial agreements, colloquially referred to as prenups, are generally contracts entered […]
I am getting excited. The forms’ book “Georgia Library of Family Law Forms” which we have been working on for about a year is about to be delivered. The truck should arrive within a week or two and the first printed copies will then be available (for more details, or to order, click here). The […]
What if technology and science progress to the point where paternity can be established “the morning after” or at one month of pregnancy?
The Annual American Bar Association meeting, held this year in Toronto, has been quite interesting. I have gone to meetings for all sorts of committees (Commission on Youth at Risk, and many others) and seminars on all sorts of topics (including gay marriage and the future of marriage and family law). At a committee breakfast, […]
Kessler named Secretary, Family Law Section of GA Bar KSS Family Law congratulates founding partner Randy Kessler on being named Secretary, Family Law Section of Georgia Bar Association. From the Offices of Kessler & Solomiany, LLC. June 19, 2009
By Randall M. Kessler The 2011 American Bar Association Annual meeting, which begins this week in Toronto, holds special meaning for me. On Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, I will be sworn in as Chair of the Family Law Section (FLS) of the ABA. I am so honored and excited. The FLS has 10,000 members who […]
Our goal, and mine, is to improve the practice of family law and to minimize the negative impact family law can have on families.
But if DOMA is overturned by the new “Respect for Marriage” act, then would Georgia be violating the full faith and credit clause of the U.S. Constitution if it did not recognize and enforce a valid “gay divorce”?
I think I am a proponent of allowing gay divorce. Not because it generates more business for divorce lawyers; in fact, it will create less business because the process of separating gay couples and dividing their assets and working out visitation arrangements for their children would then be simpler and much less costly.
