Valentines Day; Harry and Meghan; That Ring and the Rules of Engagement
With the announcement that Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle are planning a royal wedding, it seems engagement is on everyone’s...Read More
Daily Report: Advice for Rookies: Understand Yourself, Recognize Your Limitations
Navigating a new career can be tough. HHR Family Law attorney Paul S. Simon tells the Daily Report the keys to making your mark and succeeding as an...Read More
Moving Apart Happens in Divorce, But It Doesn’t Have to Split Your Family
In a divorce, families go from living in one home to two. But what happens when one partner decides to move a significant...Read More
God, School, Health and Extracurriculars: The Top 4 Post-Divorce Parenting Issues
As parents raise their children, they confer on a huge range of decisions related to their kids’ lives. How do we handle homework? Do they get to watch TV on a school night? How do we make them eat their...Read More
Who’s Got the Thanksgiving Turkey … and Who’s Got the Kids?
Summer just officially ended this week. We’re not even to Halloween, but the reality is, if you’re a divorced couple with kids, you’d better be thinking now about Thanksgiving and those December...Read More
For Divorced Couples, Paying for College May Not Be an Academic Issue
Figuring out college finances can be thorny under the best of circumstances. The costs are complex and vary from college to college and student to student. For divorced couples, there are added layers of complication: Who pays, and how...Read More
Unexpected Visits from the Grim Reaper: Make Sure Affairs Are in Order When Divorcing
Death and divorce have an interesting relationship in Georgia. It’s important to know their dynamics … or your family or beneficiaries might pay an unexpected...Read More
Divorce Filings and the “January Effect” – Hedgepeth Heredia’s Jon Hedgepeth on the biz1190’s Dana Barrett Show, Fox5 and WDUN Radio
HHR’s Jon Hedgepeth talked about the January Divorce Effect with several media outlets this month, including The Dana Barrett Show on biz1190 radio, Good Day Atlanta on Fox5 and WDUN Radio with Russell...Read More
Kurt Cobain’s Guitar and Grandma’s Wedding Ring: Defining Marital and Separate Property
A guitar that once belonged to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain recently was center stage as an interesting point of marital property law....Read More
Summer a Hot Time for Child Custody Issues
While the logistics of sharing the kids over three weeks around Christmas and New Years might seem easy enough, figuring out the split for 10 – 12 weeks over the summer is another beast...Read More
The Gray Divorce Epidemic: Is There A Cure?
You might be hearing the term “gray divorce” more often these days, but I’m sorry to say it has nothing to do with “Fifty Shades of Gray”! So what does gray divorce really...Read More
The January Effect: Start of New Year is the Busy Time for Divorce Filings
Most of us start off the New Year with resolutions to make a change for the better — lose weight, exercise more, spend more time (or less) with family and friends. As a family law attorney, I know that for some people, their firmest New Year’s...Read More