You know who has a very limited sense of humor? Attorneys and judges, that’s who. When you are embroiled in, say, a custody case, fighting for physical custody of your children, your fabled wit and insightful sarcasm should be conspicuously absent. The law, in Virginia and elsewhere, is a treasured, serious and honored idea. Judges especially do not enjoy courtroom ...
“See you in court! I will be your worst nightmare and easy to spot. I will be the one in the crop top with the baby blue sport coat.” No you most certainly will not, young man. What may have been okay for Ezekiel Elliott at the NFL draft1 is not okay for Virginia courts. Men are not usually hailed ...
As that great legal scholar, Basil, once said, “No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have, and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!” In Disney’s “The Great Mouse Detective” the object of this insult, Ratigan, really was a slimy, contemptible sewer rat. Your goal, in working through your family law issues in Virginia, is ...
For anyone in our nation’s military services, acronyms are a fact of life. From Weapon Of Magnesium, Battalion, Anti-Tank — aka WOMBAT — to Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems (MANPADS), weird clusters of letters invariably mean something important. The USFSPA, or Uniformed Services Former Spouse Protection Act, is an important acronym that could be a path to a comfortable retirement in later ...
Dear Jason, My ex-wife was so uncaring about my pain from our separation and divorce, I could not bear to go home so I spent the next six weeks sleeping on the floor of a friend’s house. What should I do? Your Friend, Brad Dear Brad, I notice your separation and divorce was important enough to make the newspapers ...
The intersection of medicine and law often lead to carts before horses, as when medicine has honed surrogate pregnancy to a nearly mundane thing, while Virginia’s laws creep to catch up. We noticed the D.C. Council recently lifted its 25-year ban on surrogacy contracts1, which made us consider the many ways surrogacy and divorce can become entwined. Surrogacy intersects divorce ...
A property settlement agreement or separation agreement in a Virginia divorce is like the world’s weirdest grocery list. It will have a lot of details on it, in odd juxtaposition, and not a single item can be left out or you will certainly regret it later. In a moment of inspiration, we put together this convenient checklist while picking up ...
Real Virginia police recently arrested a man for wearing police attire1 to get the drop on his victim. This earned the fake cop two real two charges: malicious wounding with a caustic substance (he pepper sprayed him) and impersonating a law officer. While the fake cop broke the Virginia law against wearing a fake uniform, but he did not break ...
Anderson Cooper, the journalist, is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt, the multi millionairess. Little Gloria was only 10 when she was the unwilling center of the nation’s biggest child custody suit1, in 1934. As with many “trials of the century,” the Vanderbilt child custody battle had everything: sex, money, lesbian sex, all-night parties, extramarital sex, liquor, wild sex, and exotic ...
