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 ...
Should My Family and I Seek Counseling After Divorce?
The clothes wringer was invented in the 1880s by a woman, Ellen Elgin, and is still sold today. We mention it in passing because many of ...
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 ...
How to Make Parenting Time Feel “Like Home”
The time you spend with your own children is rare, precious and fleeting. Make the most of your parenting time by ensuring your kids feel comfortable, ...
Can My Ex-Wife’s New Husband Make Decisions For or About My Kids?
Blended families, nuclear families, step families, grandparent families and single parent families. Today's social structures would largely be unrecognizable to past generations. When your ex-wife sets out ...
How Can I Prevent My Ex’s Boyfriend From Being Around My Children?
The mother of your children may have left your life, but you are committed to keeping the relationship with your own kids healthy. Unfortunately, the guy ...
5 of Our Favorite Commercials on Fatherhood
Trigger warning: this post will involve emotions. Some dads are a little shy about dealing with emotions. It’s one thing to scream and chest pound over ...
The Legitimacy of Breastfeeding Concerns in Child Custody & Visitation
Throughout the annals of medicine, a stark reality has been a prevailing pattern: doctors are merely human, after all. They sometimes dispensed bad advice. Doctors do ...
Child Custody Concerns for Substance Abusing & Addicted Teenagers
Regular readers of these entries will notice a frequent flippancy. Sometimes Virginia law deserves a tweak on the nose, a banana peel in its path. Not ...