Common Pitfalls for Men During Divorce Proceedings
A pitfall trap, says the Virginia Cooperative Extension, is ideal for collecting arthropods, if collecting arthropods is your jam. A pitfall is a pit — or ...
My Teen Ran Away to My House – What Can I Do as The Non-custodial Parent?
Running away from home in Virginia is two things: a rite of passage for children and a perfectly legal act. As the City of Virginia Beach ...
I Gave My Ex Full Legal Custody … Can I Restore My Rights?
If you had a BINGO board for our blog articles, the “best interests of the child” would get covered in every game. Today we are talking ...
I Gave Up My Career to Be a Stay-at-home Dad … Now My Wife Wants a Divorce
Down through the years many a man has dreamed of being a stay-at-home Dad (SAHD), and in recent decades that dream job has become much more ...
Emotion Coaching: How to Better Connect with Your Children
Who taught you to regulate your emotions? Most of us cannot point to a specific person or moment when we learned to control our anger, to ...
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Teachers often use teaching methods their own teachers used on them, sports coaches rely on outdated training from their own performance years, and parents discipline their ...
We Raised Her Children Together – Do I Have Any Rights as a Non-Biological Father?
Virginia’s laws are full of odd expressions: in loco parentis; legitimate interest; confirmatory adoption. Sure, they all mean something to someone, but most Virginians can live ...
Does an 18-Year-Old Have to Follow a Custody/Visitation Agreement?
In Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” a lowly shepherd discovers an abandoned baby. He says, “Mercy on ’s, a bairn! A very pretty bairn. A boy or ...
Can a Father Get Custody of a Newborn?
Newborn human babies are evolutionary throwbacks. Helpless, unable to walk or run after birth, and cognitively stunted due to limited brain size (according to Scientific American), ...