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Is Hitting "Like Conduct" Against Verbal Cruelty in Georgia?
Georgia has never settled whether physical cruelty and mental cruelty are like conduct, and the two decisions on the question point in opposite directions.
Read MoreJudgment on the Pleadings When Both Georgia Spouses Want a Divorce
If one Georgia spouse pleads the marriage is irretrievably broken and the other asks for a divorce on a fault ground, the judge can end the marriage on the pleadings.
Read MoreLike Conduct Is No Defense to a Georgia No-Fault Divorce
A Georgia judge cannot refuse a divorce on the irretrievably broken ground just because both spouses were guilty of like conduct.
Read MoreRecriminating Without Asking for a Divorce in Georgia
A Georgia spouse can raise the other spouse's misconduct purely as a defense, without ever asking the court for a divorce of their own.
Read MoreThe Like Conduct Defense in a Georgia Divorce
Georgia law says no divorce shall be granted where both spouses are guilty of like conduct, which can leave a married couple that both want out still married.
Read MoreWhat Is Recrimination in a Georgia Divorce?
Recrimination is answering a Georgia divorce petition with your spouse's own misconduct, either to win a divorce yourself or to stop theirs.
Read MoreWhat Qualifies as "Like Conduct" in a Georgia Divorce?
Georgia's courts have never fully defined like conduct, but they have made clear it means the same ground for divorce rather than misconduct of comparable seriousness.
Read MoreWhen Both Spouses Claim Mental Cruelty in Georgia
Two very different sets of complaints can still be like conduct in Georgia if both amount to mental cruelty, which means neither spouse gets a divorce.
Read MoreWhen Must a Georgia Judge Charge the Jury on Like Conduct?
If there is evidence that both Georgia spouses are guilty of like conduct, the judge must charge the jury on the bar even if neither side asks for it.
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