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 ...
Attorney-client privilege really exists. It is not to be taken lightly either by members of the legal profession or their clients. You hear the phrase bandied about on TV shows, or you read it in a Scott Turow novel. Yet it often overshadows a more vital concept that seldom makes its way into popular fiction, television and movies. Lawyer confidentiality, ...
Woulda, shoulda, coulda — if you get charged with DUI you are too late to play that game. And to top it off, you have a child custody case pending. Is it game over? As with so many real-life events, the answer depends on circumstances. While you — and your children — are better off if you never play around ...
The Stanley Cup is huge and heavy. Not your typical trophy, this hockey honor1 stands 35.25 inches tall and weighs 34.5 pounds (roughly the size and weight of a four-year-old child). It is also never in the custody of each member of the winning team for more than one day; after its annual tour, it and its Keeper return to ...
At The Firm for Men we respect our clients because we maintain strictly professional relationships with them; we are not compelled to live with their choices and decisions. This matters when we have clients whose personal choices do not always jive with our own, and that is absolutely okay. Take clients who are hoping to end an open marriage; it ...
Virginia’s juvenile and domestic relations district court (JDR) handles all cases that concern the welfare of a child, including child custody, visitation and support. The JDR looks at all aspects of both parents’ ability to provide support for the child, such as income, social security benefits, medical insurance, daycare expenses and living arrangements before it makes a determination about child ...