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Family law in Cobb County and throughout Georgia encompasses a broad range of concerns. An attorney is your best starting point for understanding how to protect relationships, assets and future financial stability, particularly for children.
Matrimonial law in Cobb County can begin when a couple contacts an attorney to craft a prenuptial agreement. This is not just a tool to protect assets, but also to manage debt prior to a marriage. It affords an engaged couple the opportunity to discuss financial matters that will be important further down the road.
When one or both spouses seek to end the marriage, divorce laws provide several tools for doing this:
- Separation agreements
- Collaborative, arbitrated and mediated divorce
- Litigated divorce
- Child support enforcement
- Court-ordered visitation
Separation agreements are not required, but there are times when spouses seek a trial separation. Georgia and Cobb County family laws sometimes encourage a trial separation as a means to test the waters, so to speak. This is also a preliminary arrangement that can help define final divorce settlement terms, if it proves workable to the parties.
Collaborative and mediated divorce negotiations are usually a more civil means of working out disputes and issues, and are usually more time and cost effective. All involve meetings outside of the courtroom, which can increase privacy for all parties, and the process tends to be less adversarial. With the collaborative divorce process, both parties have to agree in advance that they will work in a spirit of cooperation. In mediation, a neutral person works to find areas of agreement between the parties.
A divorce litigated in court in Cobb County or elsewhere in Georgia generally means that the divorce is contested on some level, and at least one party is being adversarial. The lawyer for each side is then generally striving to achieve the most favorable terms for their client, under the matrimonial laws of Georgia.
Family law in Marietta, Cobb County, and metro-Atlanta places a high priority on protecting children and the financial support of children. If the grounds for divorce involve behaviors such as habitual drinking or use of illegal drugs, the parent who engaged in those behaviors will lack leverage when it comes to child custody. If after a divorce a parent fails to pay child support, the office of Child Support Enforcement can pursue collection of those funds on behalf of the child. When one parent prohibits or limits court-ordered child visitation, the law in Marietta and throughout Georgia allows for the other parent to file a contempt of court case, and to seek a modification of the custody and visitation provisions, and the terms of the divorce may be modified as a result.
Of course, contemplating the end of a relationship through the use of family laws in Marietta, Cobb County, metro-Atlanta, and throughout Georgia, is usually unpleasant. The law office of Daryl L. Kidd, P.C., can help you navigate the system in such a way as to minimize the pain, and achieve the best outcome for you, your children and their relationship with your former spouse. Please click on the links below to find out further information about Marietta family law:
Divorce in Marietta
Marietta Divorce Help
Mediation in Marietta
Separation in Marietta
