Divorce Scenarios

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Consider this scenario: Your hometown is in California. Your spouse’s hometown is in Georgia. When you fell in love and got married you were both attending grad school and expecting to move “home” upon completion and getting a few years of experience under your belt in your chosen areas of expertise. Prior to that occurring you had a child together. Then your marriage became turbulent. You had intermittent thoughts of divorce. You started to worry about the burden of proving to the court that the relationship with the non-custodial parent would only experience “minimal” impact. These are the situations that custody battles are made of – and it happens all too often with varying details.

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