Atlanta, Georgia Divorce Attorneys
Rubin Family Law’s Atlanta divorce attorneys provide compassionate, strategic guidance through Georgia’s divorce process. From filing and negotiations to mediation or trial, we help clients navigate complex issues like custody, support, property division, and alimony. With a full-service approach and a focus on client well-being, we protect your rights at every stage.
The end of a marriage is a challenging time for both partners. Mixed with a complex array of emotions – sadness, anger, disappointment, fear – is the need to navigate a complicated process to bring the marriage to a legal end.
Why Do I Need a Divorce Attorney?
Making your way through the often-confusing, sometimes-infuriating Georgia divorce process becomes so much easier when you have a trusted legal counselor on your side. Your divorce attorney:
- Fights to ensure that your rights are protected, no matter what
- Handles the details, allowing you to process what is happening
- Gives you honest guidance and helps manage expectations
- Is there to listen and help you understand the proceedings
If you do not turn to a trusted Atlanta, Georgia, divorce attorney to represent your side in the proceedings – especially in a complicated divorce – there is very little likelihood of a positive outcome at the end of the day.
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Why Choose a Divorce Attorney From Rubin Family Law?
Choosing the right Atlanta-based divorce attorney can mean the difference between an uncertain future and an honest chance to start over with your new life.
Your Wellbeing Is Our First Priority
We take our role as legal representatives seriously, but we take our role as human beings and neighbors more seriously. The filings, hearings, and other legal matters are only part of the divorce process. It is also our job to help ensure that our clients come out on the other side of the divorce process with sanity and dignity intact.
We work continually to ensure that even when things are at their most hectic, we provide you with a calm, safe space in which to discuss your options and the guidance you need to make the right calls. If things get to be a little too much, we will help you find a therapist or counselor who can help you through the process and get you ready to start healing.
We Fight For You As One of Our Own
Our Atlanta-based divorce attorneys understand that the rights and protections that our system grants to the people are sacrosanct and worth being fiercely protected.
Unfortunately, divorce brings out the worst in a lot of people. If your spouse is trampling on your rights out of spite, anger, or a profit motive, we are ready to ensure that your assets, time, and future are protected and that your “new start” does not mean “starting all over.”
We Provide Turnkey Legal Services
Too many divorce attorneys only manage part of a client’s needs through a divorce process. When it comes to certain areas, other firms may have to bring in outside specialists or refer you to another attorney. By the end of your divorce, you may have members of your legal team that you have barely even met.
At Rubin Family Law, our Atlanta-based divorce attorneys are experienced and have a proven track record of success in every area of family law, including child custody and support, alimony, property division, appeals, contempt enforcement, name changes, and others.
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Learn About the Process From an Atlanta, Georgia Divorce Attorney
If you are involved or about to be involved in a divorce in Atlanta or anywhere in Georgia, you are probably wondering what the process looks like.
What Are Grounds for Divorce in Georgia?
Georgia recognizes two main types of divorce: fault and no-fault.
In a no-fault divorce, neither partner has performed any specific action or shown any specific behavior that would be considered grounds for a fault-ground divorce. In a no-fault divorce, the ground is “irreconcilable differences with no hope for reconciliation.”
In a fault-ground divorce, one party’s actions or behaviors are the primary cause for the breakdown in the marriage. Georgia recognizes 11 grounds for a fault-ground divorce:
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- Adultery
- Habitual intoxication/addiction
- Mental incapacity at time of marriage (you were mentally unfit to agree to the marriage when you entered into it)
- The marriage was based on fraud (your spouse lied to you in order to secure your hand in marriage)
- The wife became pregnant by another man prior to the marriage and the husband was unaware
- The husband was impotent at the time of marriage and did not inform the wife
- Cruel treatment, including physical, sexual, or emotional abuse
- Intermarriage between two individuals of close blood (you knowingly or unwittingly married a close relation)
- One partner is convicted of a “crime of moral turpitude” and is sentenced to incarceration of two or more years
- One partner is diagnosed with an incurable mental illness that typically requires institutionalization
- Abandonment, or willful desertion
Initial Consultation
Whether your divorce is the result of one spouse’s inappropriate behavior (adultery, physical/verbal/emotional abuse, neglect, or substance abuse, etc.) or is a no-fault divorce, your first step is to call the team at Rubin Family Law to schedule an initial consultation with a divorce attorney. In this meeting, we will learn more about you and your situation and help you understand your options and next steps.
Filing
The divorce process starts when one party files a complaint with the appropriate court. The complaint must specify a reason for the divorce, even if the reason is simply “irreconcilable differences.” Regardless of the nature of the divorce, one party will be the petitioner and one the respondent. Once the complaint is filed and the respondent responds to the complaint, the proceedings can begin.
Determining the Issues
The primary challenge in a divorce is finding agreement between the two parties. Unless you and your spouse have already settled these issues prior to filing, there is likely to be some disagreement to be settled on key issues, such as:
Seeking Agreement
Nobody wants their divorce to end up in a courtroom trial, stretching the process out even longer than it already is. To that end, we:
- Start with negotiating, working with opposing counsel to draft a divorce agreement that both parties can agree upon.
- If negotiation does not work, we proceed to mediation, relying on a skilled mediator to help the couple reach an agreement.
- Only if all else fails do our divorce attorneys move to the ultimate step of taking the case to court for a final adjudication by a judge or jury.
Divorce Decree
No matter whether the divorce agreement was decided between the parties or handed down by a court, the final step of the process is the court’s issuance of the divorce decree. This is the official and binding order that enforces the terms of your settlement or the judge’s ruling following a trial. The divorce is finalized once the decree is signed and filed by the court.
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Rubin Family Law
Practice Areas
Personalized, Effective Representation
Across The Metro Area
Our offices are located near the Cumberland Interchange, not far from Truist Park. We serve clients across the Metro Area, including:
- Alpharetta, Georgia
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Brookhaven, Georgia
- Buckhead, Georgia
- Cumming, Georgia
- Decatur, Georgia
- Duluth, Georgia
- Dunwoody, Georgia
- Johns Creek, Georgia
- Kennesaw, Georgia
- Marietta, Georgia
- Milton, Georgia
- Roswell, Georgia
- Sandy Springs, Georgia
- Smyrna, Georgia
- Woodstock, Georgia