Writer Saul Bellow once said, “When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”1 Most people pick and choose advice to reinforce their original inclinations. If you are a divorced dad interested in rejoining the dating world, you are looking for ideas that support your yearning to connect to someone other than your kids’ mother. Get Out ...
Suzanne Collins’ three books, The Hunger Games, take place in a future time, in a future country called Panem—Latin for bread, as in bread and circuses. When leaders give the public bread and circuses, their public will happily approve of all the leaders do, right or wrong. Your separation and divorce is not a blood sport, but if you do ...
Check out our Virginia Child Support Calculator Many of our previous articles have taken a light tone to some topics. This will not be one of those posts. The simple question, “Can I go to jail for not paying child support?” does not get asked casually. Only two reasons exist to ask this: either you are exploring ...
The year was 1968, and a little ol’ country gal named Tammy Wynette belted out a song, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, which reached Number One on the country charts in less than two months. But the act of getting a divorce was nothing new in 1968, and though she had five marriages herself, we assure you that Wynette did not invent the practice. ...
Actor Chris Pratt has a 3-year-old son. Son Jack “borrowed” Pratt’s phone to take a picture, and dropped the phone in the pool. Such is the life of a dad. Being a single dad (we should point out that Pratt is married to actress Anna Faris) can be even more challenging than the occasional soggy phone. My son, the budding ...
If your wife wants a divorce and you do too, move out. This will speed up the process and make both your lives simpler. That’s the short answer, of course, but it’s really not that easy. Various factors can greatly complicate this life-altering decision—everything from property to pets to kids can make this jarring moment a challenge to your wallet, ...
An old and venerated idea in psychology is summed up in Maslow’s Hierarchy. For any person to thrive, needs must be met in an ordered progression from basic survival to psychological needs to self-actualization. A parent plays a crucial role in any child’s upbringing, so most of the burden for fulfilling a helpless son’s or daughter’s needs falls to Mom ...
Whereas Virginia law allows divorce, it does so under two basic constructs: “fault grounds,” and “no fault grounds,” as established by Code of Virginia Title 20 Chapter 6 Subsection 20-911. Notice how we started with that fancy whereas, which the state of Virginia buys wholesale, by the pound, because it sprinkles the word profusely throughout its various documents and decrees. If ...
You may read this entry’s title and immediately think of a stream of ungenerous ideas. Something along the lines of, “My kids can learn firsthand what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, brainless, hopeless, heartless, bug-eyed, worm-headed their mother is.” (With apologies and acknowledgements to the brilliant screenwriting of John Hughes1 in National Lampoon’s Christmas ...