Common Grounds for Divorce in Georgia: Irreconcilable Differences

in Georgia state law allows for 13 Reasons to get a divorce the most common used one is irreconcilable differences that’s when the parties have decided that they don’t want to be together and get a divorce once the complaint has been filed with the court and given to the other party for them to be served the next thing that happens is that you have to wait for their response if they do not respond within 30 days a judge could Grant the divorce on the 31st day if they do respond in that amount of time the thing that happens next is that you have to decide the route the case is going to take if the parties are going to settle the divorce which means you’re going to file the appropriate paperwork together and that allows the judge to give a final order that’s one path another path it can take is that if the parties decide they don’t agree on certain matters that’s for the judge to decide Georgia is also unique in this respect in Georgia you can have a judge trial or you can have a jury trial the jury trial doesn’t cover all matters but it does cover most matters about Asset Division meaning custody will always be left up to the judge to determine it would not go to a jury that’s a unique fact about divorce in Georgia