The American economy is a bit like Schrödinger’s famous cat, simultaneously in a recession and not in a recession. The answer depends on your source, with Forbes saying we have been in a recession since the summer of 2022 and Bloomberg saying no, we dodged that label. Still, economic uncertainty can cast a cloud on a marriage, with both spouses ...
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 ...
The lowest possible Social Security number, 001-01-0001, went to a woman named Grace D. Owen, of Concord, New Hampshire. At least, that’s according to the Social Security Administration itself, but the symbolic number was a bit of a hot potato. It wasn’t even the first number issued. Social Security has a lot of weirdness to it, especially as it pertains ...
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 ...
Virginia is home to 5,267 railroad employees working on some 3,000+ miles of track for nine freight railroads and at least three passenger lines, according to RailServe.com. That means some of those folks working on the railroad will retire from their careers, and, possibly, divorce. Jump to a Section Railroad Retirement Act (RRA) Pensions Are Railroad Retirement Benefits Divided in ...
This nation’s first military pensions gave our fighting soldiers not money, but land. According to the National Archives, on September 16, 1776, Congress passed a resolution promising up to 1,100 acres of “free land in the public domain to officers and soldiers who continued to serve during the Revolutionary War or, if they were killed, to their representatives or heirs.” ...
Ah, the 1950s! TV dinners, Disneyland, Rock and Roll; all the wonders of a postwar America sprang from a booming economy. Of course, rampant racism, the Korean War, sexism, the Cold War, and one-piece women’s bathing suits were part of the decade, too. Let’s take a look at evolving trends in marriage and divorce from the 1950s onward. Jump to ...
Outer Mongolia sounds … remote. Still, a recent federal jobs listing showed a dozen opportunities for a posting in Mongolia. Overseas postings are not exclusively military; FederalJobs.net says more than 45,000 Americans serve overseas in the state department, military postings, and in teaching jobs. Some of them, surely, want to divorce. But how? Non-Military Divorce Only one of the two ...
In a world of virtual meetings, why would anyone travel for a job? Experts at DecipherZone rattle off 10 reasons for business travel. But too much business travel is just bad for relationships, with even a capitalist bastion like Forbes pointing out it can lead to divorce. Jump to a Section Is She Traveling for Legit Reasons? Divorce But Not ...