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Northeast Georgia Gray Divorce Attorneys

When you’ve built up your fortune and family over a long marriage, things look a little different if that marriage ends. The situation is called “gray divorce,” a term meant to describe the unique challenges facing people who divorce later in life, often divorce after 50. As your legal team, we can help you wrangle these unique concerns.

At Hotard & Hise, our attorneys have more than 50 years of combined experience in Georgia family law. We help clients in communities across northeast Georgia make smart, thoughtful decisions, but we do more than that. Our caring, neighborly, calming approach to the law helps our clients handle scary legal upheavals with grace and surety.

What’s So Unique About Gray Divorce?

Most divorces spend a lot of time working through issues of custody and parenting, but for most divorces later in life, the children are adults or nearly adults, and the custody part is not as big. However, the financial side remains larger, with additional complications, such as:

  • Potential permanent alimony: Permanent alimony is more frequent in gray divorce because both sides are much closer to retirement and it is harder to start a career over 50.
  • Division of retirement accounts: While even shorter marriages may have some retirement account changes, for long marriages, late in careers, the potential impact to a retirement account is considerable.
  • Impact on Social Security benefits: Social Security is a complicated program, and both sides of the divorce will have questions about what will happen with their potential payouts from the program.
  • Complex property division: The mingled assets of a lifetime can be nearly impossible to cleanly divide after a long marriage.

For all these concerns, we can help you find answers, either in the courts or in alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation.

Compassion In An Uncertain Time

If you’re going through a later in life divorce, we can help you stay in control of what matters most to you. Reach out to us to get a representative who won’t just tell you they care; we’ll show you. Call 706-925-0797 or send an email today.