Equitable Division in Georgia: How Assets Are Split in Divorce
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Think Georgia divorces are 50/50? Think again. Georgia follows equitable division, meaning a judge or jury decides what’s fair—not necessarily equal. Learn how assets like property and retirement accounts are divided in a Georgia divorce.
many people know about community property states such as California where in a community property State it’s 50/50 split of all of the assets however that’s not the case in Georgia Georgia is an equitable division State and in an equitable division State what happens is a judge makes a determination of what is Equitable between the parties what that means is a judge from hearing information from the parties can make a determination as to what is Equitable between the parties meaning instead of 50/50 asset division could be 60 40 it could be 7030 it could be 100% 0% that all depends on the facts is given to the judge the judge can make that determination or there’s a second way to be able to do that that second way of doing that is going to a jury Georgia is a jury trial state so what that means is that they could be a jury of your peers who decide what the Asset Division should be that would be anything related to property that could be anything related to pensions 401ks major assets such as cars houses Etc that could be decided by a jury in Georgia and you would get a jury verdict as to what each party gets
