Who Has Custody of a Child If The Parents Aren’t Married?
Are you a glass-half-full or a glass-half-empty person? We ask because everyone has heard that old chestnut, “Half of all marriages end in divorce.” Well, that ...
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 ...
I’m Not the Father … Can I Have My Name Removed from the Birth Certificate?
Birth records in Virginia were not required before 1912. In some ways, life was simpler then. A kid was your kid if you said she was ...
How to Talk to Your Child about Parental Alienation
Children, says doctor of psychology Sue Cornbluth1, want three things from their parents in divorce: to not be caught in the middle, to know the divorce ...
How Much Do You Have to Owe in Child Support to Go to Jail?
How many zeros in a bajillion dollars? Sometime in the early 1990s, trolls and wags forged the word bajillion to join all the other words for ...
Who Has Custody of a Child If There’s No Court Order?
We all remember the quaint days of “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service.” Nowadays, it’s “No Mask, No Service.” What happens if it’s “No Court Order, ...
Winning a Relocation Custody Case in Virginia
Go along to get along. Or is it, “Get along to go along?” Sam Rayburn said it the second way; author Hillary Jordan went the other ...
Can a Mother Lose Custody for Not Having a Job?
When we say, “All work is noble,” we not only forget the other half of that quotation, but we also ignore the subtle disdain it shows ...
My Wife is Abusive. What Can I Do?
Virginia’s judicial system has no time for stereotypes. Women and men can both be abused. The Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts do not refer to ...