The treadmill may be both a metaphor for undesirable work and an actual exercise tool for the 21st century, but at one time is was very real and very bad. According to Smithsonian magazine, “Its inventor, English engineer Sir William Cubitt, thought the labor would help ‘reform stubborn and idle convicts.’” Sometimes the aftereffects of divorce can make a Virginia man feel ...
Perhaps you and your wife woke up after a three-day honeymoon at Busch Gardens and realized you hardly know each other. Perhaps you both came to the conclusion, after a few years of earnestly trying, that you are simply not right for each other. No hard feelings, no bruised egos — you are both just ready to move on. You may ...
Because we live in the here and now, we tend to think marriage now is what marriage has always been. That is not true, as pointed out in a Huffington Post article that reviews marriage historically. For much of humanity's time on earth, marriage was a business arrangement; make kids, find food, acquire wealth. Once you free yourself from thinking ...
How good are you at negotiating? Most people tend to exaggerate their own negotiating abilities, from presidents on down to next door neighbors. In getting to an equitable (we didn't say equal) divorce settlement, negotiating is key. Equitable Versus Equal Imagine you and your wife have three children. Imagine you are all staring at five cookie jars tucked away on top ...
Antonio found his wife's old love letters. Unfortunately for his wife Rosa, she had not written the amorous notes to Antonio, but to her lover. Antonio sued for divorce. At the time, says Vintage News1, Antonio was 99, Rosa was 96, the affair had taken place 60 years earlier, and the couple had been married for 77 years. Antonio's and Rosa's ...
blink-182's song, Stay Together For The Kids, rose to #7 on the punk charts in its debut year, 2001. The video is searing and disturbing, mirroring the emotional peril kids in divorcing families feel as a wrecking ball destroys their home even as the band sings on. The lyrics speak of a child's helplessness watching parents who, “Rather than fix the ...
Judges rightly have a lot of power in Virginia. We entrust them to know the law, which includes the United States and Virginia constitutions, case law, and the Code of Virginia. We expect them to render fair and impartial verdicts. One of their most solemn duties is to sever the bonds of matrimony for Virginia couples. And, frankly, that takes ...
The Virginia Catholic Conference1 says 8.3 percent of Virginians are Catholics. We mention Catholics because the Catholic church has well-known, strong views on divorce. While not a sin, divorce carries extra weight for Catholics. They cannot remarry without having the first marriage annulled by a Catholic diocesan tribunal, according to Franciscan Media, a ministry of the Franciscan Friars. Divorce and ...
We turn today to those noted legal authorities, Monty Python's Flying Circus1, who have previously explained — in a single three-minute children's show — how to play the flute, split the atom, construct box girder bridges, and irrigate the Sahara to make vast new areas cultivatable. For many Virginia men, creating a divorce settlement agreement may seem as elusive as those ...