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About Jason E Swango

Jason Swango is the founder of The Firm For Men, a Virginia family law firm serving the men of Virginia for nearly 20 years. Hailing from Terre Haute, Indiana, Jason is a resident of Virginia Beach where he and his wife have raised their six children. Jason is an impassioned leader and fierce advocate.

I Caught Her Cheating. Will I Get Custody of the Kids?

Hamidou Diallo won the NBA's 2019 Slam Dunk Contest in an event that saw a Wright Brothers plane, some major air and some major attitude. His leap over Shaquille O’Neal brought down the house. When you catch the mother of your kids cheating, you might think your custody case is a slam dunk. Is it? Old World Morality Unfortunately for a Virginia ...

By |May 4th, 2020|

My Wife Gave Me 30 Days to Get Out … Can She Do That?

Olivia Roehm weighs 111 pounds. Or, she did the day she and husband Jerome Roehm won the 2019 North American Wife Carrying Championship1, held in October in Maine. We're not being nosy — the winning couple got five times the wife's weight in cash (in Olivia's case, $555), plus her weight in beer (six cases). We bring this up because many a Virginia man feels ...

By |April 27th, 2020|

11 Great Reasons to Attend a Co-parenting Class

Some people say they are born to be great parents. Others have great parenting thrust upon them. You know, like when a court tells you, "Straight up, you and your ex (or the mother of your children) have to go to co-parenting classes." The Circuit Court in Virginia that orders this is, essentially, driving home the reality that Virginia always keeps ...

By |April 20th, 2020|

My Wife Filed a Protective Order on Me … But I Need My Stuff!

You humbly drove your Toyota Corolla away from your tidy home in the suburbs, rejected and dejected. Your wife went from that sad separation to her divorce attorney and filed a protective order against you. You must stay away. But when you left the night was fast approaching, the weather howling, and you had only your North Face jacket, Tommy ...

By |April 13th, 2020|

She Didn’t Put Me on the Birth Certificate … Do I Have Any Rights?

Today's Latin lesson brings us the word “putativus,” which comes from a Latin stem meaning to believe or suspect. From this we get putative, as in Virginia's putative father registry. Lawyers love Latin. Putative means “generally considered or assumed to be.” As in, you are the child's putative father. How Virginia Birth Certificates Work We think of birth certificates as a legal magic wand, casting ...

By |April 6th, 2020|

Will You Be Affected by The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA 17)?

A cornerstone of the Constitution enshrines states' rights, saying anything not specifically laid out in the Constitution by default falls to the states. This is why we have state control of education, fair housing, the death penalty, and marijuana laws. Sometimes we have conflict between federal and state law, and sometimes federal laws are enacted specifically to overrule states' laws. ...

By |March 30th, 2020|

What is Right of First Refusal in a Custody Agreement?

You politely decline an invitation to have that second helping of banana pudding. That is not, legally, "right of first refusal," but nice try (and probably better for your pants). No, right of first refusal in child custody and parenting plans means the right for the non-custodial parent to be contacted when the custodial parent needs a babysitter, extended child care, and ...

By |March 23rd, 2020|

Does the Frozen Benefit Rule Help or Hurt Military Men?

Thomas Aquinas, medieval philosopher, offered two sides of one argument when he said, "It would seem that several angels can be at the same time in the same place. For several bodies cannot be at the same time in the same place, because they fill the place. But the angels do not fill a place..."1 This has morphed into the idiomatic ...

By |March 18th, 2020|

What You Need to Know About Divorce as a Military Spouse

The astounding military leader, Alexander the Great, marched into Gordium in 333 BCE, encountered the much-ballyhooed Gordian Knot1, and sliced it apart with one swift swipe of his sword. While plenty of military men "tie the knot," many also need a way to untie their own Gordian knots. Divorcing a military spouse is more complicated than you might think. Kids, ...

By |March 16th, 2020|
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