Divorce Navigation

April 2, 2024 by Amanda Pearch

Chasing Excellence

Divorce Navigation

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“Chasing Excellence” is the informative, educational & entertaining series featuring people with unique professions, outside of the norm”. Join us as we bring attention to POSITIVITY! Throughout this series, we will share inspiring stories of entrepreneurs and their journeys.

Attorney Jennifer DeLoach with The DeLoach Law Practice specializes in the fields of family law, estate planning, and probate. She offers compassionate legal services and has a results-oriented perspective on navigating some of life’s toughest challenges. Jennifer understands the importance of protecting your family and your legacy and will take the time to get to know you as an individual and customize a legal strategy that works for you in your unique circumstances.

Charisse Excell is a Certified Divorce Mortgage Professional that firmly believes in providing exceptional services to individuals going through a divorce and requiring real estate and mortgage financing. By educating and comprehending their needs, she can offer valuable assistance to both the divorcing homeowner and the divorce team as a mortgage planner for divorce. Divorce Mortgage Planning takes a comprehensive approach to assess mortgage options within the broader financial goals of divorce situations. With direct collaboration with the divorce team, the CDLP® possesses in-depth knowledge of the relationship between divorce, taxes, real estate, and mortgage financing.

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Host Cathy Hogan

Cathy is an expert in design and marketing. She has won numerous awards as a gift designer, writer, instructor and trainer in the gift industry. Her award-winning design team specializes in unique creations. Her experience allows her to highlight a multitude of interesting professionals and share their stories with YOU!

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Email us at chasingexcellencepodcast@gmail.com– we would love to hear from you.

Produced by Amanda Pearch

Empowering Clients and Dispelling Myths in Family Law Cases, with Paul Simon, Hedgepeth Heredia Family Law

February 1, 2024 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Empowering Clients and Dispelling Myths in Family Law Cases, with Paul Simon, Hedgepeth Heredia Family Law

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Empowering Clients and Dispelling Myths in Family Law Cases, with Paul Simon, Hedgepeth Heredia Family Law (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 742)

Paul Simon of Hedgepeth Heredia joined host John Ray on this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. As a partner at his Atlanta-based firm, Paul specializes in family law, dealing with cases such as custody disputes, child support, alimony, and divorce. Paul dispels a few of the biggest myths about family law he regularly hears from clients. He stresses the importance of advocating for clients while also providing counseling and reasoned advice based on the facts. In addition to representation, Paul encourages individuals experiencing divorce or other family law issues to pursue therapy, rely on support networks, and invest time in activities they enjoy as part of their emotional recovery. He also highlights the considerable reach he and his firm have across multiple counties in the metro Atlanta region.

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Paul Simon, Partner, Hedgepeth Heredia Family Law

Named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers in the area of family law, Paul has exclusively practiced family law for the entirety of his legal career. The nuance and complexity found in every family law case informs Paul’s approach towards all of his clients, which is to develop and craft a specific strategy to achieve optimal outcomes. Paul understands the difficulty family law issues can present and enjoys working with his clients towards bright, sustainable futures.

He is a member of the Family Law Section of the Atlanta Bar Association and the Family Law Section and Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia. Paul has been published in the Daily Report, the legal organ of Fulton County, Georgia, and in the American Journal of Trial Advocacy. He has also spoken at continuing legal education conferences on topics germane to family law cases.

Paul received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Georgia in 2010, where he was an active member of his fraternity, serving as president his junior year. He received his JD from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2013.

While in law school, he served as president of his law school class, as an articles editor for the American Journal of Trial Advocacy, and as an oral advocate for Cumberland’s national finalist moot court team. He participated in the National Appellate Advocacy Championships in Chicago in 2013 and received the Hand Arendall Award for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy.

Hedgepeth Heredia Family Law

Hedgepeth Heredia LLC is an Atlanta-based family law practice. The firm’s partners—Jon Hedgepeth, Hannibal Heredia, and Paul Simon—are some of Georgia’s most highly regarded and respected attorneys in family law. Their areas of expertise include divorce and separation, custody, support, property division, paternity, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, adoption, and alternative reproduction. The firm is AV-rated, and its partners have been extensively recognized and honored with the legal community’s top awards, including Atlanta magazine’s “Super Lawyers,” Super Lawyers magazine’s “Top 100 Lawyers in Georgia,” and Georgia Trend magazine’s “Legal Elite.”

Office Location: 3330 Cumberland Boulevard, Suite 450, Atlanta, GA 30339, (404) 846-7025

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Topics Discussed in this Interview

00:04 Introduction and Welcome
01:09 Meet Paul Simon: Family Law Attorney
02:41 Why Family Law? Paul’s Journey and Motivation
09:25 Understanding Family Law: Custody and Child Support
22:42 Choosing the Right Family Law Attorney
25:23 Paul’s Success Stories and Final Thoughts
30:58 Conclusion and Farewell

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, and many others.

RenasantBank

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions, with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management, and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Shawna Woods with Atlanta Divorce Law Group and Billy Van Eaton with Cumberland Landscape Group

August 18, 2022 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Shawna Woods with Atlanta Divorce Law Group and Billy Van Eaton with Cumberland Landscape Group

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Shawna Woods/Atlanta Divorce Law Group

Family law is about helping individuals and families manage the emotional struggles of facing an uncertain future. It is about their legal team being human and sensitive and empathetic to this big change that is occurring in their clients’ lives. The Atlanta Divorce Law Group has been founded on a history of helping families through the most challenging times of their lives. This is really the niche in which their Alpharetta divorce and family law attorneys and staff have become experts. And since they take such a holistic approach in how to help a family get through a transition, they have been involved with all aspects of the family’s life as they deal with a crisis. The Atlanta Divorce Law Group team and its attorneys are guided by their mission and a strong set of values to bring each client their Happily Ever After Divorce®. Every divorce is unique to each client, so they strive to let compassion and growth guide an organic process of divorce.

Billy Van Eaton/Cumberland Landscape Group

Cumberland Landscape Group was founded in 2011 and has grown to one of the largest, privately-owned landscaping companies in Atlanta with over 170 team members. They want to engage in honest conversations with their team members and customers, be transparent in those interactions, and work as a team to accomplish their goals. That goal is to be the best landscaping company in the market, and an employer of choice for industry leaders. They strive to treat others the way they want to be treated. When they make mistakes, which are inevitable, they work to make it right with a mindset of creating long-term partnerships with those around them. Cumberland is a full-service design, build, and maintenance landscaping company serving the greater metro Atlanta area.

The Amicable Divorce Network, with Tracy Ann Moore-Grant of Patterson Moore Butler

March 4, 2021 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

The Amicable Divorce Network, with Tracy Ann Moore-Grant of Patterson Moore Butler

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The Amicable Divorce Network™, with Tracy Ann Moore-Grant of Patterson Moore Butler

Tracy Ann Moore-Grant, Patterson Moore Butler, chose family law as a profession because she enjoyed helping people. She took it one step further by founding the Amicable Divorce Network, a coalition of service providers dedicated to low conflict divorce. Tracy Ann joined host John Ray to discuss why a low conflict process is better for all parties and less costly as well. “North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Tracy Ann Moore-Grant, Partner, Patterson Moore Butler

Tracy Ann Moore-Grant has practiced exclusively in the area of family law in the North Georgia area since 2002. She has focused her practice on all issues related to families including amicable divorce, child custody, child support, and contempt issues. She regularly handles matters which may be low conflict such as an uncontested divorce or complex family law matters such as cases involving psychological custody evaluations and small business and retirement division.

Ms. Moore has a client-driven focus with her approach to the practice of law and believes in treating each case as a partnership with the client and takes steps to accomplish a client’s goals. She has begun to focus her practice on uncontested, cooperative, and respectful divorces to assist the parties in navigating the court system in a low conflict manner. Ms. Moore is also a registered mediator and arbitrator as well as a trained guardian ad litem and parent coordinator.

Ms. Moore-Grant enjoys being involved in her community and has received several awards and recognitions over the years. She was given the AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubble in 2018 which is the highest rating an attorney can receive for legal ability and ethical standards.

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The Amicable Divorce Network™

The Amicable Divorce Network is a group of Georgia attorneys, mediators, psychologists, financial professionals, and other professionals with experience in family law who have come together to assist parties seeking a respectful divorce process. We are currently only serving the Atlanta Metro & North Georgia area. Professionals in the network have made a commitment to respect the amicable divorce process to help parties navigate divorce while providing experienced advice and services along the way.

The Amicable Divorce Network™ is both an organization for professionals who work in a divorce-related industry AND an Amicable Divorce Process™ whereby the parties to the divorce, and their selected professionals, are committed to settling their matter in a low conflict and efficient matter. A divorcing couple agrees to use members of the network for their case so that everyone involved has the same amicable mindset and has received the appropriate training on the process.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

Background on Tracy Ann and her firm, Patterson Moore Butler
Why Tracy Ann chose family law
Why she started the Amicable Divorce Network
Why the Amicable Divorce Network process is better for clients
What it is better for family law attorneys and other services providers
How it is different from a traditional divorce
Being awarded the Georgia Legal Award for Distinguished Leadership in 2020
How the Amicable Divorce Network is growing into a national and international network

North Fulton Business Radio” is hosted by John Ray and produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Dawn Smith, Smith & Lake

April 20, 2020 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Dawn Smith, Smith & Lake

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Dawn Smith, Smith & Lake (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 220)

Smith & Lake partner Dawn Smith joined “North Fulton Business Radio” to discuss the unique issues involved in co-parenting in a pandemic, planning for a divorce, and much more. The host of “North Fulton Business Radio” is John Ray and the show is produced virtually by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta.

Dawn Smith, Partner, Smith & Lake

Smith & Lake is a law firm dedicated to assisting individuals and children obtain fair and favorable results in family law matters. Our lawyers have extensive experience working with and for judges and bring this unique perspective to each client’s case. They are seasoned and successful litigators, negotiators, and guardian ad litems. This breadth of experience and perspective allow Smith & Lake to craft and achieve smart solutions that fit each client’s situation. Our experience as Georgia attorneys has allowed us the opportunity to represent spouses, partners, mothers and fathers facing issues from divorce to child custody to domestic violence. We understand the enormity of the decisions you face and welcome the opportunity to discuss your personal situation in greater detail to help you understand how Georgia laws apply to you and your best course of action.

Dawn Smith is a partner at Smith & Lake, LLC where she practices family and education law. She has represented children and families for over 28 years. Immediately prior to joining the firm, Dawn was a partner at one of Atlanta’s most prestigious family law firms. She also served as Deputy Director of Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation where she was responsible for administration of the city’s largest pro bono family law program. In this role, Dawn worked in partnership with the Judges of the Fulton County Family Court to provide trained Guardian ad Litems in contested custody matters. She has trained Guardian ad Litems throughout the state and has lectured on their role nationally. Dawn is frequently appointed by Courts to serve as Guardian ad Litem in family law cases. She also is a certified arbitrator and mediates family law cases. Dawn is one of 40 fellows of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a highly respected organization comprised of the top family law practitioners in the State. In 2017 and 2018 she was named to the Super Lawyers^® list of Top 50 Women in Georgia, in addition to being named Top 100 Super Lawyers in Georgia.

In addition to her expertise in family law, Dawn is recognized as one of the leading advocates for the civil and educational rights of children with disabilities. She is the past President of the Board of Directors of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, the national membership organization for special education attorneys and advocates. She has pursued actions on behalf of children in state and federal trial courts as well as in the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Dawn is a frequent lecturer both nationally and locally on the rights of children. At the firm, Dawn provides quality legal services on behalf of children and lends her expertise in this area to all of our family law endeavors.

To learn more, visit the Smith &. Lake website or call 404-909-8300.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

co-parenting
More from Dawn on co-parenting in the unique circumstances of Covid-19 can be found here: https://www.smithlakelaw.com/blogs/co-parenting-and-the-unique-circumstances-presented-by-covid-19/
protecting children in a divorce
planning for a divorce
More from Dawn on planning for a divorce during Covid-19: https://www.smithlakelaw.com/blogs/divorce-during-covid-19/
are family law courts operating?
how does unemployment or a business slowdown affect spousal and child support?

North Fulton Business Radio” is produced virtually from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Danny Naggiar, Atlanta Family Law Attorney

April 20, 2015 by angishields

Pro Advocate Radio

Danny Naggiar, Atlanta Family Law Attorney

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Danny Naggiar / Atlanta Family Law Attorney

Partner at Naggiar & Sarif Family Law, LLC

Family Law attorney Danny Naggiar joined Pro Advocate Radio’s Professional Spotlight in April 2015. Danny explained about his military background paving the way for him to assist families, both military and civilian with the often complex range of issues parents are confronted with as they divide financial assets, property, and most importantly work out parenting plans that serve their children well.

Danny’s calm manner and quiet resolve in guiding parents to the best outcome for themselves and for their children drew an enthusiastic and even grateful response from our audience. We sought out Danny for our Professional Spotlight not only because of the accolades his firm has been given, such as those from Martindale-Hubble and by Georgia Trend and Atlanta Magazine, but because of his track record and the validation from other professionals.

Watch for updates here and details on future shows with Danny and his partner David Sarif.

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James O’Brien/Pro Advocate Radio

Talk Show Host

Pro Advocate Radio is designed to give a voice to advocates and families focused on serving the needs of children. The show will call attention to current issues and challenges facing families, advocates, educators, healthcare providers and law enforcement.

James, a native Georgian, and long time girls’ softball coach, is the proud father of three daughters and a grandson.

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Deb Beacham/My Advocate Center

Founder, Executive Director

We are the Game-Changers in guiding improvements that affect the Family Law community, specifically high-conflict divorce, child custody disputes & family violence matters. Our Professional Spotlight #onPAR serves this mission.

Bold moves are being made to help parents understand how to better transition through & out of conflict, meaning we help reduce stress for children, and preserve family time & resources for their benefit.

Professionals who are like-minded are encouraged to connect and become a part of our Resource Directory. Please visit the Counsel for Change group page here on LinkedIn to learn more about our discussions. Our advisory panel reviews professionals to ensure certain standards are met. If you are focused on upholding ethics rules, professional duty, and are committed to helping children receive the best that both parents have to offer, let us know.

Our investigations, initiatives & strategies are also well suited to supporting government agencies in making necessary improvements to programs & services. It is important that these changes are made to better serve parents & children; but it is also possible to yield a positive economic return for each community & state.

MAC’s purpose in contributing to agencies & other organizations is to improve the divorce/child custody process in a way that leaves our communities stronger & better able to support the needs of children. We now have opportunities to lessen the impact of family violence, addiction & other dysfunction, while putting our financial resources to better use.

Connect | Inform | Empower

When it comes to guiding public policy to improve the process, and to helping parents navigate through high-conflict custody cases, no other collection of experts and resources is better positioned to give you clear and actionable insight.

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