You are free, free, free! After divorce, embrace that heady feeling of being on your own again. You’re free to set your own schedule, free to eat what you want, free to go where you like. Don’t worry about getting too cocky. Real life will intrude. The car loan must be paid, rent or mortgage is due every month, and ...
Iurisperiti et eorum lingua Latina! Lawyers and their Latin—where you might say “cut that out,” lawyers will assert an estoppel. We could give a dozen examples but check out “pendente lite” orders. Uh, that would be temporary orders in divorce, child custody, and parent visitation, thankyouverymuch. Jump to a Section Why a Temporary Order? What Does a Temporary Order Do? ...
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 ...