Can My Wife Withhold Medical Information About My Child(ren)?
Once you become a parent, whether as a mother or a father, something primal emerges. Mamas become terrifying tigers; Daddies become beastly bears. Nothing — no ...
A Look Back: Parental Rights Before the Tender Years Doctrine
Heritage seems to be a watchword in Virginia these days. Heritage symbolized in statues, or flags, or skin tone. Our American justice system has its heritage, ...
My Ex-Wife is Dating a Felon. How Do I Get Full Custody?
Wives become ex-wives. Convicts become ex-convicts. Serve your time and you’re an ex-convict. But felons? A felon is a felon for life. So, when your ex-wife ...
What are the Chances of a Father Getting Full Custody in Virginia?
Who you gonna believe, a buncha statistics or your own eyes? Weirdly, it really comes down to that choice when you try to measure your odds ...
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. ...
The Biggest Challenges of Being the Primary Custodian
An old joke says the second prize in a contest is a two-week vacation in Philadelphia. The first prize is a one-week vacation in Philadelphia. Sometimes the prize ...
4 Tips for Helping Your Children Manage Their Anger
They bite. They scratch. They kick. Kids and cats are similar, but we expect our children to outgrow angry outbursts and manage their anger. We expect ...
The Stunning Consequences of Absent Fathers
For some men, their 20-second contribution to fatherhood is enough. Once sated, these men disappear from women's lives and, nine months later, leave behind children wondering ...