What Financial Needs are Parents Obligated to Provide for?
It is impossible to get blood out of a stone. So said Vicesimus Knox, whose name sounds like a James Bond villain but who was in ...
Virginia Divorce & Maintaining The Status Quo
Three public institutions of higher learning offer degrees in Latin. Understanding Latin could come in handy if you want to be an attorney, since words like ...
Marital Separation in Virginia
This article is a part of our Family Law 101 series. Jump to a Section Separation Definition How to Separate Legally The Code of Virginia & ...
Does My Child Custody Case Have to Go to Court?
Child custody cases can become legal nightmares, as in the case of Virginia’s own Lisa Miller, who fled the country with her daughter more than 10 ...
Do I Pay Child Support in Virginia With 50/50 Custody?
Virginia offers separating and divorcing parents several options with child custody. The law reads, “The court shall consider and may award joint legal, joint physical, or ...
What Issues in My Virginia Separation Agreement Can Be Revisited?
What’s the worst four-letter word? Nope, it’s not that one, that one, or even the c-word. It’s “just,” as in “I just want to make some ...
How Can I Figure Out How Much Virginia Child Support Should Cost?
We went to visit one of Virginia Beach’s psychic readers the other day. We knocked on her door. From somewhere inside she asked, “Who is it?” ...
Child Support Arrears, Compound Interest, and You
Here’s a mathematical puzzle to nudge your noggin: how can you take $8,800 and turn it into $7.5 million? Ben Franklin knew the trick; he left ...
Can Child Support Switch from One State to Another?
The Articles of Confederation, our nation’s first “constitution,” were badly flawed. Each state could have set up tolls and tariffs at its borders, so a sack ...