Wallops Island, Virginia is normally a quiet wildlife refuge on a small barrier island just south of Chincoteague. Every so often, Wallops resounds to the thrill and din of rocket launches, since the island is also home to a NASA flight facility. NASA launches 16 different types of sounding rockets, and each requires its own launch preflight checklist. Your Virginia ...
If a friend says to you, “What I’m saying is false,” is your friend lying? This classic conundrum is known as the Liar’s Paradox. You can waste time trying to unpack the rules of a self-referential dilemma. But what if you face a different kind of paradox, a dynamic where the rules of a heated competition seem to apply only ...
Postpartum depression can place significant emotional strain on a marriage, affecting communication, intimacy, parenting responsibilities, and the relationship between spouses. For some couples, these challenges contribute to separation or divorce after having a baby. If you are a Virginia father dealing with postpartum depression in your marriage, understanding the condition and your legal options is important. Postpartum depression is a ...
It is, perhaps, one of Virginia's more memorable Ring camera stories: an October 2025 viral video appeared to show three masked men attacking an Alexandria home. The frightening incident reportedly turned out to be a family prank. But what if your own Ring camera captures something far more serious? A confrontation with your spouse. An argument during a custody exchange. ...
A property settlement agreement (PSA) can be the foundation of a relatively painless, uncontested Virginia divorce. But what happens if you sign the PSA and later discover a serious problem? Can an uncontested divorce become contested, and when should you raise the issue? The answer depends heavily on timing. Concerns raised while the PSA is still being drafted are very ...
Virginia family law changed in several significant ways on July 1, 2026, and men facing divorce, custody disputes, support claims, or protective-order litigation should understand what changed before assuming yesterday’s strategy still works today. For Virginia fathers, some of the amendments affect the language courts use for parenting time, access to children’s records, custody evaluations, lawful substance use, grandparent ...
Effective July 1, 2026, Virginia changed the way divorce cases begin, not the way they end. While the new law doesn't shorten the waiting period for a final divorce, it does allow spouses to get into court much sooner after separation. For many of our clients, particularly husbands who are the primary earners, that change can have significant financial and ...
Military divorce involves unique benefits and obligations that civilian divorces never encounter. One of the most misunderstood issues is the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP). Many service members assume that divorce automatically ends survivor benefits for a former spouse. Others believe they can simply remove an ex-spouse as a beneficiary after the divorce is finalized. Unfortunately, military retirement benefits do not ...
The fork-tailed drongo is a liar. This bird, says Scientific American, squawks out an alarm when predators are near. But it also squawks out the same alarm when a rival has a tasty morsel, so the rival drops the food and runs away. Then the fork-tailed drongo scoops up the snack for itself. Plenty of other species lie, but we ...