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The Obama administration moved closer to officially recognizing the right of same sex couples to marry.

It was also a time to reflect. I have chaired this program for about ten years. When I was first involved, many attendees did not have email and most did not have a website.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK – Your fiance still lives with his parents and is buried in student loans. In the grand scheme of things, the latter likely isn’t grounds for a breakup. But the financial baggage a spouse carries is bound to drag you down too. It doesn’t make for the most romantic musings […]

So this entry has little to do with Family Law, and more to do with how this Family Law Attorney enjoyed the Super Bowl. Last year, as a lifelong New Orleans’ Saints fan, I had the chance of a lifetime to watch my hometown team go to and win the Super Bowl. It was an […]

By The Associated Press Georgia’s top court instructed state judges to treat a foreign country as another U.S. state in child custody cases. The Georgia Supreme Court opinion released Monday found that a ruling made in a foreign country must be enforced if done under factional circumstances in “substantial conformity” with Georgia law. The court’s […]

By HILARY SHENFELD As Halle Berry and Padma Lakshmi are finding out in a painfully public way, more and more fathers these days want a hand in child rearing and are seeking custody of their kids. Berry is embroiled in an increasingly ugly dispute with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry over their 2-year-old daughter, Nahla. A rep […]

And an affair in the marital bed is at best inconsiderate, and at worst highly offensive.

By JOYCE WADLER The woman who came to see Ken Altshuler, a divorce lawyer, had reason to be enraged: her husband was not only having an affair, he was also having an extravagant, money’s-no-concern, fabled-and-faraway-beaches affair. He had taken his girlfriend to Tahiti, he was sending flowers to her. But what infuriated his wife the […]

A very interesting case from Texas is in the news. A lesbian couple left texas to get married in Massachussetts. They returned to Texas and subsequently sought, and obtained a divorce. The Texas Attorney General then intervened, but so far that intervention has been been ruled as coming too late (click here for a link […]

Georgia Trend We are proud to announce the following lawyers have been named by Georgia Trend on their list of Georgia’s Elite Lawyers for 2012: Randall M. Kessler & Marvin L. Solomiany