Child support can be a tricky business, especially if it comes after the breakdown of a relationship or the child is an unexpected surprise. When you combine often complex legal jargon with those strong emotions, it can be difficult to get to grips with what your child support obligations are versus what Mom might want beyond that. It’s important to ...
You count on your 401(k). It's your retirement, your nest egg. You've been saving for years, and you invest the max amount whenever you get the chance. Your finances are in good shape, but your marriage is not. You and your wife have been fighting for months. Your relationship is beyond repair. Filing for divorce is imminent. Your wife is ready to move on ...
The most heartbreaking issue in many divorces is determining the custody arrangements for the children. Divorce is rarely perfectly amicable. Couples don’t often part ways without some feelings of anger and fear. Children, often considered the most precious asset of a union, can trigger battles that leave painful and enduring scars on all parties involved, especially the children. Many men find ...
You get what you pay for. The old expression works two ways: you have to live with the cheap choice you made, or you can enjoy the benefits of paying for a superior product or service. In Virginia, you do not need to pay for a family law attorney at all in divorce; you can try to go it alone. ...
In Virginia, parents can be awarded joint legal custody, joint physical custody, or a combination of the two. In joint legal custody, the responsibility for the care and supervision of the child is shared equally between the two parents, and both are able to make important decisions regarding the child. Parents can share joint legal custody, even when the primary ...
“To sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there’s the rub.” Shakespeare meant, with Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, for his character to contemplate his own death, a different sort of sleep than the one we enjoy nightly. A third meaning of sleep exists, however, besides a little shuteye or a grim demise. If your wife is no longer sleeping — having sex — with you, ...
Talk to any teenager today and you need a dictionary of slang to understand. Words that start off as polysyllabic suddenly truncate to words indistinguishable from grunts. Bae means “baby;” woke stands in for “stay alert and aware;” a thing that is lit is really wonderful. So from the same search for brevity we get fam for family and prenup ...
Federal employees have access to an excellent program for retirement savings, the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). If you are a federal employee with a TSP account you may wonder what becomes of your account after divorce. What does she get, and what do you get? The ABCs of TSPs A TSP account is a useful investment vehicle for Federal civilian ...
In 1940, the World was gearing up for war. Many countries were already in the fight. Nazis occupied Poland, and on September 27, the Axis Powers officially formed as Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union signed the Tripartite Pact. In the midst of global turmoil, the United States Congress enacted the Soldier's and Sailor's Civil Relief Act of 1940 (SSCRA). ...