You have a one in six chance of hitting a jackpot on a slot machine at Rosie’s Casino in Hampton. What are your chances of living in a community property state? Nine in 50. If you are going to gamble (either at Rosie’s or in marriage), Virginia is a good bet. Virginia is not a community property state. You can ...
Queen Victoria was only 4 feet 11 inches tall, but she had a 60-inch waistline. Her marital waist was a mere 20 inches when she married her cousin Albert. Over the next 61 years, bless her, her Royal Highness’s marital waist became a … a Royal Wideness, as evidenced by her bloomers. Don’t be judgy! What has happened to your ...
We have all witnessed the tawdry spectacle of brutal, nasty, embarrassing Hollywood divorces like Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, or Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Yet even the most benign, quiet Virginia divorce can have its ugly moments. Rather than reveal any weird personal habits, both parties must provide financial disclosures. Jump to a Section Financial Disclosures in Virginia Divorce ...
Cursive handwriting is a lost art. That is why most of us have no idea what “cross the T’s and dot the I’s” originally meant. The connected letters of cursive required the writer to return to the completed word to, literally, cross the ascending t and place a dot over every i. At any rate, with divorce, every attorney knows ...
Is your monthly rent above or below $1,257? The U.S. Census bureau reports1 that Virginia’s median gross residential rent from 2016 through 2020 was $1,257, an odd number. That means sharing the costs of a lease goes down to the dimes. You and your wife each have to kick in $628.50, but by having each of you pay and each ...
Congratulations on successfully navigating your way through a tricky divorce from your one-time spouse. Now that you can say you have an ex, you need to tidy up some details. Like that pesky mortgage on that fabulous Virginia mansion … or ranch house … or bungalow. Big or little, your house had both your name and your ex’s name on ...
Most of us recount having to “call” possessions as a kid. You know: “I call that chair,” “I call the back seat in the car, in the middle, my feet on the hump.” Do you have to do the same thing as a married Virginia man? Can your wife clean out your home when you are away? Well, no, she ...
What’s the worst four-letter word? Nope, it’s not that one, that one, or even the c-word. It’s “just,” as in “I just want to make some adjustments to the materials, color scheme, timeline, and budget of my home remodeling project.” Ranking up there, too, are phrases like, “We could just make a few dozen changes to the legally binding agreement ...
Habeas ut nanctus. Plautus, a Roman playwright, wrote that in 194 BCE. It means, “He keeps that finds.” Today, we and a playground of school kids would say, “Finders, keepers; losers, weepers.” Property disputes during separation in Virginia sometimes come down to winners and losers. Separation in Virginia Virginia law has a long-way-around legal path to separation. You cannot be ...