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Family law issues are tough for all parties, especially when children are involved. When divorce is the only option, we’ll guide you through the steps to negotiate the division of assets and ensure spousal support going forward. Most importantly, we’ll make sure your children have the financial resources they need.
Our family law firm also specializes in paternity and legitimation cases. We help mothers establish paternity so that child support payments can be enacted, and we help fathers legitimate children so that they can obtain visitation rights.
Additionally, we work on specialized grandparent visitation cases for divorced couples. We want to make sure grandparents are able to see the grandchildren that they love, even after their parents separate.
Going through a divorce is one of the most painful and overwhelming events that a person can experience. In addition to the emotional aspect of divorce, there is also property division, debt division, taxation issues, child custody, visitation, and child support that must be addressed.
Our experienced family law firm prioritizes educating our clients about divorce laws in the State of Georgia, helping them understand their rights and responsibilities. We’ll discuss various legal options and alternatives to help clients make an informed decision. We’ll help you negotiate the division of assets and debts, including real estate, investments and personal property.
In divorce cases involving children, we’ll help you negotiate and establish child custody and support arrangements so that your children have the financial resources they need. If circumstances such as income or living situations change, we’ll help you seek modifications to court orders for spousal support, child custody, and visitation.
We know how difficult the process can be and our family law firm can help you get through to the other side of divorce. Let us help you walk through this tedious process with confidence and security.
Paternity actions may only be filed by mothers in an effort to establish paternity for a minor child and to enact child support payments. However, paternity actions do not typically bestow any visitation rights or legal rights on the father unless he files the appropriate response to the petition.
Paternity actions are a legal avenue to help a mother get financial support when a father has failed to file a legitimation or offer any monetary support for the minor child. Brooklyn has years of experience in this area of family law and can advise you about the options you have so that you can obtain the support you and your child need.
On that same note, there is a similar legal vehicle for unwed fathers to gain legal rights to their children. This is called legitimation. Most unwed fathers mistakenly believe that signing their minor child’s birth certificate establishes their rights as the legal father. However, in Georgia this is not case.
A father’s legal rights can only be established by marrying the child’s mother or filing a legitimation action and obtaining a legitimation order from the Court. Without marriage or a legitimation order in place, a father has no legal or physical custodial rights to a minor child. This means there is no right to visitation. Our family law office can assist fathers through the legitimation process so that they can visit and care for the children that they love.
In the State of Georgia, parents are not the only people that may petition for visitation rights. Grandparents, siblings, other close relatives and third parties may obtain visitation rights to minor children with whom they have a strong bond and loving relationship.
While Georgia strongly supports a parent’s right regarding their children, there are certain situations in which other family members can be awarded visitation to minor children over the objections of the parents. In order to evoke the grandparent statute, the parents of the child must be divorced.
The typical scenario we see most often is when parents get divorced, the custodial parent prevents visitation with the non-custodial parent’s family. As a result, the parents of the non-custodial parent (the grandparents) are forced to file a petition to obtain visitation so they can see their grandchildren.
These type of cases are painful for everyone involved because the family desperately misses the minor child and wants to spend time with them. If you find yourself in this situation, let us help. Brooklyn understands the intricacy of these particular family law issues and will guide you through this process with delicate tenacity.