
Serving Seniors, Families, and Georgia
Serving Seniors, Families, and Georgia
Accolades, News, and Recent Decisions
Accolades, News, and Recent Decisions

Accolades
Donald S. Horace is a registered mediator with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution and a highly sought after Guardian ad Litem with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. It should be noted that Mr. Horace will be a featured speaker and moderator at the 2025 Joint Family Law Conference and Networking Exchange in Barcelona, Spain, like in 2024.
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2024 was a great year and 2025 will be greater.
Recent Articles and Georgia Case Law
Recent Articles and Georgia Case Law
Recently, the Georgia Court of Appeals reaffirmed that a legal custodian shall not be allowed to maintain any action for change of custody or change of visitation rights so long as visitation rights are withheld in violation of a custody order. See Granados v. Newsome, A24A1411 (2024). In reaching this decision, the court relied on O.C.G.A. Section 19-9-24. Here, the case was further complicated because the Plaintiff had previously violated a custody order, but at the time of her petition, she was in compliance with the parenting plan.
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In Wohlers v. Wohlers, A24A0841, the Georgia Court of Appeals addressed what happens to frozen embryos when a couple divorces and disagrees on what to do with them. In pertinent part, the court describes the three leading approaches commonly used by courts in the United States in deciding the matter: (1) contemporaneous mutual consent; (2) contractual approach; and, (3) the balancing approach. The court discusses each approach and relates it to the parties.
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If any of these issues exist for you, contact our office for an appointment. Additionally, if you plan to relocate from the United States to another county, please note that their laws may be very different from those here. For example, surrogacy is illegal in Italy, only three embryos can be created or transferred per cycle​, and in vitro fertilization (IVF) is only available to heterosexual couples. Spain has laws similar to Italy.
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