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Date: 10-24-2024
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Jessica Elizabeth Green McGree v. Alex Taylor McGree
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Judge: Mitchell M> Lundy, Jr.
Court: Chancery Court, Montgomery County, Mississippi
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Winona, Mississippi family law lawyers represented the husband and wife in a divorce.
Alex and Jessica McGee married on March 24, 2011, and the couple had their first child in June 2011. On grounds of irreconcilable differences, the McGees divorced on July 18, 2014. The parties agreed that it was in the child's best interest that Jessica have physical custody with Alex having visitation. The parties also signed a property settlement agreement. Around November of 2016, however, Alex and Jessica rekindled their relationship and welcomed a second child in August 2017. The couple remarried on December 28, 2017, had their third child in August 2019, and separated again around March 18, 2022.
On March 25, 2022, Alex filed for divorce in the Montgomery County Chancery Court. In his complaint for divorce, Alex requested sole physical and legal custody of the three children. Jessica sought joint legal custody and sole physical custody. The chancellor granted the divorce based on adultery on June 15, 2023, and awarded joint physical and legal custody of the three children. Jessica appeals the chancellor's division of Alex's 401(k) and the award of joint custody. Specifically, Jessica asserts that the correct date of division is March 24, 2011, the date of the parties' first marriage, as she purports that the parties clearly worked together and accumulated joint assets since that date. Jessica also alleges that the chancellor improperly focused on her adultery in awarding joint custody, that the other factors weighed in her favor, and that joint custody is inappropriate because there is overwhelming evidence that she and Alex are unwilling to communicate and cooperate with one another.
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Green McGee v. McGee, 2023-CA-00695-SCT (Miss. Oct 24, 2024)
Outcome: Affirmed
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