I agree, that does sound fishy! The courts would presumably only be open from 9-5 and he allegedly had no idea his child was dying/dead all day, so I suppose, in theory, she could have been filing for 'separation maintenance' at the same time her child was dead or dying and her husband was sexting obliviously (allegedly). If they both DID have some grand plan, not sure how filing for separation maintenance they same day her child died, before she knew he was dead, would fit into the big picture...
Here's the thing:
Their divorce records are found here
http://www.cobbsuperiorcourtclerk.com/COURTS/
Going back 5 years, there's no record of any legal separation. The first and only civil filing is LH filing for divorce. The document states they were separated 'on or around June 18th, 2014," which, you know, going to jail on June 18th does tend to 'separate' you from your spouse, in a very literal sense, on that date.
I actually don't think Georgia recognizes legal separation. You don't file for it here, from my understanding. You file for 'divorce', or 'annulment' or for 'separate maintenance' and separate maintenance would have to do with financial support and child custody.
http://www.divorcesource.com/ds/georgia/georgia-legal-separation-5309.shtml
There's no civil record she did that. I don't think they'd remove a record.... They didn't pull the divorce. They have means to block docs from being opened (if specifics in the docs involve a minor) so if they were concerned regarding the upcoming I case, I'd think they'd just do that. You'd see the case, but you wouldn't be able to click to open the documents to read them.
I wonder if the journalist saw the 'separated on or around the 18th' on the divorce petition and ran with it. Perhaps LH's lawyer was drawing up the petition for divorce in January and said, "So when shall we say you started living in a state of separation?" and LH was all, "Well, uh....since he got arrested on the 18th of 2014." :dunno:
I'm pretty local to this story but haven't been following closely all the time we've been waiting for trial so there's probably a lot I don't know. Y'all feel free to correct me when I totally screw up what we know and what we don't know! :blushing:
Stay tuned! This does sound "odd"
She HAD to have filed earlier in the day!
Is this the smoking gun?
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