The Unforeseen Impact of COVID-19 on Women & Mothers
COVID-19 is terrifying a lot of Virginians, and rightly so. Some hunker down, adopting a bunker mentality that preserves the home as a virus-free safe zone. ...
She Didn’t Put Me on the Birth Certificate … Do I Have Any Rights?
Today's Latin lesson brings us the word “putativus,” which comes from a Latin stem meaning to believe or suspect. From this we get putative, as in Virginia's putative father registry. ...
I Don’t Think the Child I’ve Raised is Mine … How Do I Challenge Paternity?
The common cuckoo bird engages in a brutal behavior scientists call brood parasitism1. The female cuckoo lays her eggs in other birds' nests. Quick-hatching cuckoo chicks ...
My Child is Studying Abroad During My Parenting Time – What Can I Do?
Good parents provide homes they intend to empty. If you did a good job parenting, your adult children visit but do not stay. Your kids are ...
Is Sole Custody Possible with a Special Needs Child?
More than 168,400 special needs children were enrolled in Virginia's public schools in 2016, according to the Virginia Department of Education. For 2013 (the most recently ...
My Ex is Pregnant … Should I Be Going to All The Appointments?
The legal word "consent" is often associated with intimate matters like sex, statutory rape and marriage. It also extends, though, to the often-inevitable outcome of sex: ...
My Ex In-laws are Trying to Make My Kids Hate Me … What Should I Do?
When you divorce your wife, you also divorce her family. That moment is a huge reset button for relationships. Any veneer of cordiality is ripped away. Any ...
My Child’s Mother Won’t Let Me Have Overnights – Is that Allowed?
In Virginia, some parents have an interesting (if inaccurate) view of court documents. Apparently, they feel they are optional, as in, the parent can ignore the ...
My Wife is Threatening to Leave and Take My Kids to Another State!
You don't usually think of children as property, but in a strange legal sense, they are. If you and your wife have children, you have a ...