What is an emergency to one person is not important to another. Consider the 11-year-old, who feels that a forgotten school lunch box is a life-altering emergency requiring calls to Dad and interrupted work schedules. Emergency child custody, similarly, is a matter of interpretation. What could your ex-wife do that would possibly constitute an emergency? 1. Illegal Drugs Virginia, like ...
You should be so lucky to have an ex-wife who discovers, after a marriage with you, that she’s a lesbian. This sounds snarky, sure, but it has sound legal reasoning behind it. A recent Virginia Supreme Court ruling tells the whole story. It is one of many insane (but true) facts related to spousal support (aka alimony). Luttrell V. Cucco: ...
Almost nobody plays the board game Monopoly by its official rules. Part of the reason: the real game seems to never end. The world record for the longest Monopoly game1 is 70 straight days, says Hasbro, the game’s manufacturer. Divorce may seem like that, too: it seems like it never ends. Yet keeping in touch with your divorce lawyer after ...
Divorce is never easy, and matters can become even more complicated when your estranged wife doesn't consent to the divorce itself. It's not uncommon for one party or another to disagree with the divorce and even contest the grounds for the divorce itself, but what do you do when your wife refuses a divorce entirely? Let's take a look at ...
As the American Chemical Society (ACS) reminds us, “the dose makes the poison.”1 For example, says the ACS, the average American would have to eat 5.4 pounds of sugar in a single sitting to have a 50 percent chance of dying from too much candy. That translates into 1,627 pieces of candy corn. Delicious as candy is, too much of ...
Luna and Oliver may be invited to sleep on your bed each night, but since they are cats, they are just so much property. In the eyes of the law, Luna and Oliver (the most popular cat names, says Rover.com1) are the same as your love seat, flat-screen TV, or recreational vehicle. Who gets Oliver and who claims (or—if you ...
An old saying goes, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” The same is true with paying for a divorce: if you think getting divorced is expensive, consider how much higher the cost—emotionally, mentally and financially—of staying together might be. Some people are just not suited for each other, and if you have children in the relationship, you can ...
As parents, we joke about how we might not miss seeing our kids from, say, when they are 13 through 17. Teenagers can be a handful, no doubt, but every parent wants to stay connected and involved with their children. Even divorced parents deserve to keep their family together in some way. Court-decreed visitation allows for that, but what is ...
Many moviegoers fondly remember the 1992 hit, My Cousin Vinny. Joe Pesci’s character, the neophyte lawyer Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, seems to do everything wrong. We remember the weird clothes, the thick Brooklyn accent, and the way he fumbles so many of the legal proceedings. Yet—and this is important—Gambini the Lawyer has great legal instincts, appeals to the jury, interviews clients ...