With estates containing businesses, expansive portfolios, valuable properties, and other unique or hard to value assets, ensuring a fair and equitable division requires not just emotional fortitude but strategic financial maneuvering and prior planning. This post should help illuminate several different options to safeguard your financial interests during and after divorce. It also offers some caution against methods that do not work.

Under Georgia law, alimony is designed to provide financial support to a spouse who may be economically disadvantaged as a result of a divorce, particularly where that spouse was financially reliant on the other spouse throughout the marriage or has little opportunity for post-divorce income.

One frequent question that individuals considering divorce face is whether it matters who files a divorce action first. Let's address this concern and shed light on the legal implications of being the first to file for divorce.