The second-highest stressor in an adult's life, according to the Holmes-Rahe Stress Inventory, is divorce. We have heard this news all around us, in social media, news pipelines, and from neighbors: stress kills. Virginia men are strong, no doubt, but stress from divorce can seriously affect your mental and physical well-being. Here's how to stay focused, healthy and happy through ...
Time machines never made any sense to us. If you went forward or backward in time with a time machine such as H.G. Wells described1, what's to stop some thief from making off with it, stranding you in either the distant past or future? Yet a time machine could be mighty handy when you find yourself nearing a divorce without a ...
You can blame Causby's chickens for losing the limitless air rights above your home. The Supreme Court's 1946 decision1 set an upper limit to those rights (usually no more than 1,000 feet), but it was Thomas Causby's chickens that led to the order. His chickens, terrified at low-flying airplanes, ran themselves to death in a flight or fight reaction (sorry about ...
Antipodes are points on our merry ol' globe that are exactly opposite from each other. If your wife leaves Virginia and moves to its antipode, she is probably on a raft in the southern Indian ocean, according to (you can find anything on the internet) Antipodes Map.com. So can you still divorce her? Virginia Residence Your wife's departure for her ...
For most people, the word "cruelty" is the start of a phrase or search leading to innocent animals. In Virginia, though, cruelty is a fundamental reason to get a divorce. Domestic violence is, by legal definition, a form of such cruelty. It is one of the "fault grounds" for divorce, but it does not accelerate the process. Is Domestic Violence ...
The movie National Treasure hinges at one moment on the protagonist, Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicholas Cage), who steals the Declaration of Independence. That is something you just don't do. Some documents, like the Declaration, are so rare, so special, they cannot be trifled with. Is your separation agreement one of those documents? Separation Agreements Aren’t Just Pieces of Paper A Virginia ...
Virginia's jails and prisons held 66,503 prisoners as of 2016, according to The Sentencing Project1. The jail population alone was 28,690, with more than 10 times as many men as women serving time. Despite spending hours, weeks, and years behind bars, these men and women still retain legal rights, including the right to defend themselves against suits for divorce. Suits ...
Irish author James Joyce wrote, "What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own." He was not the clearest writer. He also wrote, for example, “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” That line about mine and yours is clear enough, though, and rings true to many a Virginia man facing the depletion of a bank account by a soon-to-be ...
Your wife left you and your Virginia marital home six months ago and moved to Tennessee. Now you are served with papers saying she wants a divorce. In your gut you know she is right — you two were not destined for a strong future together. Your head, though, is fogged; does the divorce happen in Tennessee, or in Virginia? Does ...