What is Considered an Unsafe Environment for a Child in Virginia?
Hatmaker may be a funny-sounding last name, but that is the only thing funny about Jordan Hatmaker. The 35-year-old Virginia Beach skydiving native survived a terrifying ...
My Wife and I Don’t Agree on How We Discipline Our Children
Teachers often use teaching methods their own teachers used on them, sports coaches rely on outdated training from their own performance years, and parents discipline their ...
My Wife is Abusive. What Can I Do?
Virginia’s judicial system has no time for stereotypes. Women and men can both be abused. The Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts do not refer to ...
Leaving an Abusive Marriage with Children
She loved you, once. She loved her children, too, presumably. But for whatever reason — drugs, alcohol, mental illness, gambling addiction, criminality — she has become a threat ...
What is Considered an Unstable or Unsafe Household?
To make nitroglycerin without blowing yourself up, take a tip from Alfred Nobel (yes, that Nobel, of the Nobel Prizes). He invented dynamite but also devised ...
Is Malicious Mother Syndrome a Real Thing?
If you are at all embarrassed to ask your doctor for help with ... er ... bedroom issues, imagine strapping on Pulvermacher’s Galvano-Electric Chain Belt1. Weighing ...
How Does Virginia Law Define Mental Cruelty?
“Some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable.” When Tennessee Williams wrote that for his play, A Streetcar Named Desire, the Mississippi native could ...
Hiring a Private Investigator: What You Need to Know
She left the rolled up Rembrandt in the Amtrak station in Newport News, along with the stack of bearer bonds. But what did she do with ...
Parental Alienation & What You Can Do If You’re Suffering from It
Sometimes we are glib. Sometimes we are silly, or outrageous. With a topic like parental alienation, we see no room for silliness; too many Virginia men ...