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 spending hours, weeks, and years behind bars, these men and women still retain legal rights, including the right to defend themselves against suits for divorce. Suits ...
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 about mine and yours is clear enough, though, and rings true to many a Virginia man facing the depletion of a bank account by a soon-to-be ...
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 right — you two were not destined for a strong future together. Your head, though, is fogged; does the divorce happen in Tennessee, or in Virginia? Does ...
Here is our free legal advice of the day: do not get wasted, order a ride service, and then fall asleep. A New Jersey man visiting friends in West Virginia spent $1,635.93 on a ride from West Virginia back home, five hours away, according to the Washington Post1. If you are divorced, getting around town and meeting up for visitation ...
He was an unusual political candidate, Lee Carter was. While running for the House of Delegates in 2017, he admitted to, among other things according to the Chicago Sun-Times1, having explicit photos of himself on the internet, being unable to hold a job, and proceeding through his third divorce. Instead of hiding his dirty laundry, he advertised it, a highly unusual move. ...
Blended families, nuclear families, step families, grandparent families and single parent families. Today's social structures would largely be unrecognizable to past generations. When your ex-wife sets out on her own (probably with considerable financial support from you), she starts a new variation on your original family structure. If that new variation includes a new man, you may worry about the second ...
The overturned trash hauler sprawled across four lanes of traffic in Colonial Heights, VA (south of Richmond). Waste and garbage was everywhere; traffic was at a standstill. Imagine for an instant if that tractor-trailer had been hauling everything you owned, and all your money. Scattered across the asphalt. That is the vision to conjure when considering not municipal waste, but ...
Americans enjoy talking about themselves. If you want to know why somebody does something, ask them. Psychologists ask lots of people lots of questions about sexuality, marriage, bad habits, and divorce. They compile the answers into research papers and then announce findings. Over the years, hundreds of such papers have analyzed reasons people divorce. Some may surprise you; others seem so expected ...
The mother of your children may have left your life, but you are committed to keeping the relationship with your own kids healthy. Unfortunately, the guy your ex-wife or ex-partner is now seeing is, well, a creeper. He unsettles you, says inappropriate things, and makes a point of displaying his control of your ex. Worse, he sends out the wrong ...