The word “quiz” has often been claimed to be a purpose-built word to win a bet. Yet we have evidence from the Online Etymology Dictionary1 that this is not the case. Quiz was once used as a noun to describe a person who was a little … off, let’s say. Anyway, we thought you might like to brush up on ...
Few wounds in a crumbling marriage cut as deeply as adultery. Finding out your wife cheated on you constricts you like a coiling snake, cutting off options and taking the breath from you. You react, separate, and then file for a Virginia divorce. You seek an attorney focusing on protecting your rights as a man, and together you move ahead ...
In Virginia, adultery is one of the fault grounds for divorce. It is ugly and sometimes challenging to prove legally, but of the fault grounds, it is one of the more benign malignancies. Your other choices of what to level against your wife are buggery, sodomy, or felony, among others. If adultery is legally proven, though, what does that do ...
This isn’t the first time we’ve spoken about adultery here. Adultery is one of those topics most people politely skirt with euphemisms and more left unsaid than said. Yet in a Virginia court, when claiming your wife committed adultery, you need to legally prove it. How do you prove your wife had sex with another person outside your marriage? Adultery ...
Lawyers love words. We use them a lot, in both English and Latin. Our “briefs” are anything but, and legal paper is notorious for being several inches longer than letter-sized paper because, well, we like words. Here’s an epigram (a sharp saying) you may not expect: “To err is human; to forgive, humane.” When forgiving a spouse some egregious act ...
At The Firm for Men we respect our clients because we maintain strictly professional relationships with them; we are not compelled to live with their choices and decisions. This matters when we have clients whose personal choices do not always jive with our own, and that is absolutely okay. Take clients who are hoping to end an open marriage; it ...
Short of your wife’s death, being cheated on is arguably the most difficult thing that could happen to your relationship. You will feel emotions like anger, hopelessness, sadness, confusion, rejection, and embarrassment flooding in and out. The breach of trust can shatter your entire world. As a fault-based ground for divorce in VA, filing for divorce on the ground of ...
Consider stromatolites. They look like rocks, but stromatolites1 are the world’s oldest life forms. They date back 3.7 billion years, or roughly half the time you’ll be paying alimony. ... At least that is what it feels like when you are sending away a significant chunk of your paycheck week after week, month after month. Does permanent alimony ever end? ...
Adultery is grounds for a fault divorce in Virginia. This is the blunt and legal truth. It is only the first, and possibly least distasteful, of eight grounds for divorce. Cheating in a Virginia marriage is cause enough for the aggrieved party to seek (and usually get) a divorce. Adultery must be proved, and, like discounts and most things legal, ...