At least the Virginia legislature is not as bad as the Cleveland Browns, 0-16 for the 2017 season and benighted with an even more dismal performance than 2016’s 1-151. Most sports teams do not trumpet a 6-20 season (uh, dream on, Cleveland). Virginia’s legislature, though, is not a sports team. Passing six family law bills for 2017 is actually a ...
Johann Sebastian Bach produced The Brandenburg Concertos in 1721 as a way to get a job. He never heard them in his lifetime, and his prospective employer the Margrave of Brandenburg apparently never even looked at the scores. Yet, in our day, the six Brandenburg Concertos1 are some of the most popular classical music in the world. They also happen ...
The song Cheaper to Keep Her by Johnnie Taylor is packed with advice on divorce and marriage. Does Taylor's advice still ring true 44 years after its 1973 debut? Paying Support: Johnnie Taylor Says One of Taylor's stanzas packs a wallet-emptying wallop: When your little girl make you mad And you get an attitude and pack your bags Five little ...
Single parents have to be in several places at once. Grocery store, school, work, home and then is tonight Scouts, Muay Thai or music lessons? Single Dads may feel mighty stretched when squeezing in meals for their kids, but research has shown that eating together is really, really good for children. Here are some simple, Dad-friendly and kid-approved meals you ...
Your typical Virginia bar-room lawyer will have plenty of free advice on “legal separation,” despite the fact that such a thing does not exist in Virginia. The phrase does not even appear in the vaunted Code of Virginia. In this meme-dominated age, California celebrity often eclipses actual facts, and in California, people can obtain a “legal separation.” Not so in ...
America loves apple pie and underdogs. We root for the Bad News Bears and we shed a tear for the recovering addict. If you did not get shared custody of your children after a Virginia divorce, or your ex-wife got sole custody, you have a worthy but challenging task ahead: reversing sole custody. A Virginia court has literally judged you ...
A whole new raft of laws1 took effect in Virginia July 1, 2017. Included among them: the all-important Blaze Pink law. The law allows hunters to wear blaze pink instead of blaze orange hunting apparel during hunting season. Also enacted was HB 2289, compelling a person paying spousal support to continue life insurance naming the supported spouse as beneficiary. It is one of four ...
The world record for the most people performing a headstand simultaneously is 648, say the folks at Guinness World Records1. Around our offices, we like that record, because we tend to turn the tables on a lot of Virginia custom in our pursuit of legal fairness and equity. For example, though too few Virginia men are custodial parents, those who ...
Schoolyard taunts: I know you are, but what am I? Oh yeah? Make me! Most of us grew up hearing these, either directed at us or spoken by us. Sometimes we enlisted a bigger friend or older sibling to bail us out: Touch me and my big brother will cream your corn. We (mostly) grow out of these disputes. The ...