Despite some historic and current hiccups, our nation is still a jewel of democracy in a sea of conflict. People from all over the world still clamor to get into the United States, and many of those set their sights on settling in Virginia. Most people enter our country legally, and many of those apply for citizenship. A Virginia divorce ...
Deep inside Goddard Space Flight Center, not too far from the calm waters of Virginia Beach, spacecraft destined for Mars and beyond are assembled for liftoff. Many of the components have bright red tags on them reading, “Remove Before Launch.” For probes journeying outward to the far reaches of our solar system, those flag tags are one-way decisions. A planetary ...
Time travel paradoxes are nearly as old as science fiction writing, and many a story revolves around the dilemma of going back in time to alter something without also altering the path to the invention of time travel. You go back in time and prevent your marriage, but the child you and your wife produced in that marriage grew up ...
Teenage male otters deliberately swim into the “triangle of death.” Teenage gazelles deliberately taunt predators like lions and cheetahs, says the BBC1. Fathers of Virginia teenagers, take heart: our species is not alone in dealing with reckless and impulsive behavior from our offspring who are not quite children, but hardly adults. In a split or a divorce with custody issues, ...
They have ordered cat food after hearing a commercial on television. They have secretly recorded a family’s conversation and sent it to a family contact. One of them has even intruded into a business meeting to order a dating game for a woman not wanting or needing a dating game. A few more of these anecdotes make us wonder if ...
Regular readers of these entries will notice a frequent flippancy. Sometimes Virginia law deserves a tweak on the nose, a banana peel in its path. Not today. Some Virginia fathers are faced with real crises that compound divorce, children and addiction in a terrible trio of torment. While divorce is stressful, struggling with child support or child custody for an ...
Who cannot be stirred by the great Patrick Henry, American patriot? This famous Virginian, eyewitness to the founding of our nation, is remembered not only for “Give me liberty, or give me death,” but also for the Virginia Yazoo Company1. Huh? You hadn’t heard? Yeah, Patrick Henry was involved in a fraudulent land scheme. He headed the aforementioned Virginia Yazoo ...
Afficianadoes of a certain Saturday morning cartoon may remember the villain’s constant refrain, “And I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for your meddling kids!” With imputed income, any harebrained scheme to shortchange your children on child support will definitely be foiled by Virginia’s divorce or juvenile and domestic relations courts. Bringing Home the Bacon During ...
Some 270 years ago, Benjamin Franklin offered a little Advice to a Young Tradesman that included this pithy saying: Remember that time is money. Most of us are now earning more than the 10 shillings a day Ben uses to illustrate his point, and most law firms charge a bit more than that for a 30 minute or hour long consultation. ...