The Gettysburg Address is 272 powerful words. Declaration of Independence? 1,337 words, without the 56 signers' autographs (1,458 with them). Our title for this piece? A scant seven words, but oh, so complex an issue! So many possible answers! Two Ways to Order Child Support In Virginia, child support is determined one of two ways: You and the child's mother ...
Very few people come to a divorce attorney seeking advice on preserving a marriage. Yet, when you think about it (and we think a lot about it), family law attorneys here in Virginia are actually experts at marriage. If anyone has a compendium of what not to do in a marriage, it is a divorce attorney. Apologize Which is more ...
We marvel that the list has only eight items, but website We Have Kids lists eight warning signs that you are a bad parent. You'd expect things like neglecting or abusing your kid, sure. But some are surprising, like "irresponsible financial behavior." We have personally witnessed hundreds of examples of bad parenting, often from visiting tourists on our Virginia Beach boardwalk. ...
Divorce of any kind can be a gut-wrenching experience. Military divorces take the normal stress and amplify it, making military divorce more complicated and messier than civilian divorce. One reason? Federal benefits, such as the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP), often accrue to both military member and spouse. Disentangling SBP after divorce adds a layer of complexity to a Virginia divorce. What is ...
The common cuckoo bird engages in a brutal behavior scientists call brood parasitism1. The female cuckoo lays her eggs in other birds' nests. Quick-hatching cuckoo chicks hatch before their nestmates. They push the other bird eggs out of the nest to the ground below, leaving the foster bird mom to feed only the cuckoo. From the cuckoo we get the ...
Which lasts longer, the anger you feel during a contentious divorce, or the damage done to your family? When laid out in stark terms, the price of a family feud during a divorce becomes clear: your future relationships with children, extended family, and the mother of your children. The Unintentional Injury to Children of Divorce The American Association for Marriage ...
The words are deliberately menacing: "... authority to punish as contempt of court any willful failure of a party to comply with the provisions of the order ..." Virginia Code does not cut parents any slack in court orders, even when the subject is the fickle heart of a tween or teen. What could happen to you if your child ...
Men in military life get their fill of acronyms. You have everything from AAAA, the Army Aviation Association of America, to USAJFKSWCS DFac (you'll have to wait until the end to find out about that one). In between, you have an important acronym, SGLI, which stands for Servicemembers Group Life Insurance. Why SGLI? Virginia courts may compel a servicemember (male or ...
You and your child's mother decide to part ways. What becomes of your child? Without a court order, you would think you are adrift, unmoored to any child custody laws in Virginia, free to do as you please. Perhaps you and the child's mother would think you can do what you wish, since you never took the matter to a Virginia ...