Dear Readers, The cultural treatment of the legality of certain drugs has ebbed and flowed over the years.  We can trace the interplay between drugs and societal mores back to the American Revolution.  The trafficking of rum and slaves, coupled with tobacco production, were the foundations of our colonial economy.  Once free from the British Empire, in the first years of the United States, the "Whiskey Rebellion" tested President Washington's ability to keep the country from fracturing over taxe...

Dear Readers, Inexplicably, our Chief Superior Court Judge, George F. Nunn, Jr., has a challenger again.  He is one of the best Superior Court Judges in the State and, yet, a member of the local bar feels the need to try to have him voted off the bench and force he and his family into a contested election.  Sad.There are many methods for selecting judges.  In some jurisdictions, they are "directly elected" (or appointed) and sit "indirectly" on the ballot alone for an up or down retention therea...

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Dear Readers, When a service member is involved in a custody fight, what might otherwise seem simple can be made complicated. A new law makes things a little clearer. Last year, Georgia finally joined the vast majority of other states in crafting special child custody rules addressing the needs and stresses of military life for service members and their dependents in passing the "Military Parents Act." In the middle Georgia area, our judges have been attuned to the best interests of military d...

Being in an Air Force town, we often get questions about the rights of military parents who are deployed. There's good news for military parents, Georgia recently passed the Georgia Military Parent and Family Equal Protection Act. It's a bill aimed at providing support and resolution to child custody issues deployed parents are facing.  There is a lot of information in the Act, but we've got your back. Tomorrow, March 1, Jim will be appearing on The Warner Robins Patriot radio show with Joe Bis...