You enter the Virginia Beach law office tentatively, nervous and unsure of what to expect. You shake a hand; you sit down, you spill your guts. The person you hope will become your lawyer listens, takes some notes, and explains the process. You feel better, but as you leave, you wonder, what is the divorce lawyer going to do to ...
Nobody can pass a tax law without creating victims and victors. The changes to our tax code brought about by the recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) highlight this. Gone will be the deductions for spousal support payments by the payor (in Virginia, usually the man), and the recipients (in Virginia, usually the woman) will not have to declare ...
The Tall Texan, Billy Walker, crooned a major hit in 1964 called “Circumstances,” with this soppy, sweetly sad little lyric: “O! But the dreams this foolish heart romances, When two blue people were the victim of circumstances.” Though Walker was not a Virginian (the shame!), many a Virginia Dad has felt the hard heartache of changing circumstances affecting child custody. Endangering ...
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Good ol’ Trevor Engelson. Down-to-earth, likable, regular guy Trevor Engelson. Production assistant made good, became a producer, and married a beautiful woman in a destination wedding. You may not know his name, but you know his ex-wife’s name: Meghan Markle. That Meghan Markle, the one who married a prince. We are not bringing up either name to rub salt in ...
Trigger warning: this post will involve emotions. Some dads are a little shy about dealing with emotions. It’s one thing to scream and chest pound over a touchdown with your buddies; it’s another thing to shed a tear because your six-year-old daughter pirouetted in her dance recital. Many of the best television commercials about fatherhood and being a real dad ...
A military marriage is like no other. It combines duty and romance, freedom and finance. Many eager young couples with one or both of the lovebirds serving our country never even consider a prenuptial agreement. This can have unfortunate consequences years in the future. Six critical aspects of a military prenuptial agreement must be considered along with the wedding planning. ...
“A lawyer shall not reveal information protected by the attorney-client privilege under applicable law or other information gained in the professional relationship that the client has requested be held inviolate or the disclosure of which would be embarrassing …” The words do not have the ringing majesty of, say, the words of Shadwell, Virginia’s native son, who began his most ...
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” Mary Shelley was only 21 when her novel, Frankenstein, was published. Her masterwork included that telling sentence. Of course, the change she was talking about was, er, um, the construction of a human from cadaver bits, but it could just as well have been the change ...