“White tie and tails” is the most formal of looks for men. It is rarer and more formal, than black tie events like weddings and galas. At the other end of the fashion spectrum, [...]
You can blame Causby's chickens for losing the limitless air rights above your home. The Supreme Court's 1946 decision1 set an upper limit to those rights (usually no more than 1,000 feet), but it [...]
What is the sound of one hand clapping? What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? How much does a custody lawyer cost? Some questions cannot be answered. On One Hand: Attorneys’ [...]
Antipodes are points on our merry ol' globe that are exactly opposite from each other. If your wife leaves Virginia and moves to its antipode, she is probably on a raft in the southern [...]
For most people, the word "cruelty" is the start of a phrase or search leading to innocent animals. In Virginia, though, cruelty is a fundamental reason to get a divorce. Domestic violence is, by [...]
The movie National Treasure hinges at one moment on the protagonist, Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicholas Cage), who steals the Declaration of Independence. That is something you just don't do. Some documents, like the Declaration, are [...]
Our everyday conversations are replete with misdiagnoses against others: "You're crazy," "She's nuts," "He's two tacos short of a combo plate," and many others (a National Institutes of Health study1 rounded out top terms [...]
Virginia's jails and prisons held 66,503 prisoners as of 2016, according to The Sentencing Project1. The jail population alone was 28,690, with more than 10 times as many men as women serving time. Despite [...]
Irish author James Joyce wrote, "What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own." He was not the clearest writer. He also wrote, for example, “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” That line [...]
Your wife left you and your Virginia marital home six months ago and moved to Tennessee. Now you are served with papers saying she wants a divorce. In your gut you know she is [...]
