Divorce Court (Online): Will the courts move toward more Zoom Trials or hearings? (Valuation Expert) http://valuationpodcast.com (314) 541-8163
Hi, welcome to valuation podcast.com, a podcast and video series on all things pertaining to business valuations. I’m Melissa Gragg, a financial expert witness in st. Louis. I have the pleasure today of discussing a divorce and court and trials with Randy Kessler. He is actually a high profile divorce lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia for over 30 years. He has founded and is a partner in KS Family Law, a 30 person family law firm in Atlanta. Um, and he represents some very interesting people, entertainers, athletes. Um, he’s handled some cases that you probably have heard of the real housewife, Nene Leakes, um, Evander Holyfield, ludicrous, usher, and even Michael Jordan. Wow. You know, we’re all watching the Last Dance right now.
I get clients that are calling me all the time and they’re like a divorce court’s going to open up soon and we’re going to file and we need to get ready. And I’m thinking, okay, the court’s not really closed. Like what are some misconceptions that people have right now that, that things are closed and as Georgia divorce courts close right now, or can you file divorce papers like right now?
Yeah. You made me think of stuff that I’m not going to forget it. Okay. But I’m actually, I’m gonna say it before. I forget it. You know, I never thought about this until just now that you made me think of this most, you know, courts sometimes cancel and then you got to reschedule and come back. And sometimes the courts put four or five cases down because they are afraid. They’re afraid they’ll get to work. The judge will get to work and the case will settle and they won’t have anything to do. And the taxpayers are paying them. So they have two, three, four cases get ready. Sometimes judges say, can you be a backup case? And so my case settles, you guys can come down here and a few hours, I’m now guessing or prognosticating. The courts will allow us to be on zoom, backup saying, if you really need a hearing soon, I don’t have any time for the next six weeks. But if you will to be available two hours notice when one of my cases settles, I will email everybody. And if you all can jump on a camera, we can get it done. And you can fill in my two hours that I found available from 10 o’clock till noon. So that’s another benefit.
Oh yeah. I mean, I think the scheduling is going to be amazing because right now, I don’t know about your court system, but right now, like we could all be ready to go to start court. And then somebody comes in and they get back into chambers and they have to have a conversation. And we’re on pause. And half the time we’re sitting around being like, does anybody know when we’re
And you’re billing the poor client who has to pay for that. The client can get a better bang for their buck. No, court’s over at 10, no driving home, no talking to the client in the hallway, no running into your friends and having to charge the client because you can’t get home to do your other work. Um, none of those issues,
High net worth divorces, I mean, usually are complex. Because there’s a lot of things going on, but not always are they con like sometimes it’s just big dollars. It may not be huge complexity. It could have been that they settled most of the issues prior. Right? We won’t work hard to settle it, but it’s like one thing that they can’t come to agreement either it’s maintenance or a child custody issue,
You’re hitting the nail on the head, you know? And sometimes people just need to be heard. And look, we’ve had that. We’ve had a, a professional athlete and there was a $40 million state. And the first mediation we settled 20, 24 mediations later, we got everything done except for one who made the decision and extracurriculars. And we had to have a hearing on that because they just couldn’t reach that last agreement. Sometimes people need to be heard and they need someone to put their foot down. And if you can just get 30 minutes with a judge who will look at them and say, you guys can fight about this, but this is what I’m going to do. You can either go settle it.
Randall M. Kessler, Esq.
http://KSFamilyLaw.com
rkessler@ksfamilylaw.com
404.688.8810 (ext. 103)
101 Marietta Street, Suite 3500 Atlanta, Georgia 30303
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