Security deposit disputes are among the most common landlord-tenant conflicts in Georgia, and they are among the easiest for a landlord to lose‚ not because the underlying damage claim is wrong, but because the statutory procedure was not followed. Georgia's security...

Georgia's approach to dog bite liability is neither strict liability nor a pure one-bite rule. It is a two-path framework that gives injured plaintiffs more than one route to recovery while still requiring proof of specific elements on each path. O.C.G.A. § 51-2-7...

Litigation assumes both sides will participate. When a defendant is properly served and does nothing ‚no answer, no motion, no appearance ‚Georgia law does not leave the plaintiff waiting indefinitely. O.C.G.A. 9-11-55 provides a structured path to default judgment,...