“A lawyer shall not reveal information protected by the attorney-client privilege under applicable law or other information gained in the professional relationship that the client has requested be held inviolate or the disclosure of which would be embarrassing …” The words do not have the ringing majesty of, say, the words of Shadwell, Virginia’s native son, who began his most ...
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” Mary Shelley was only 21 when her novel, Frankenstein, was published. Her masterwork included that telling sentence. Of course, the change she was talking about was, er, um, the construction of a human from cadaver bits, but it could just as well have been the change ...
Virginia Beach epitomizes a conflict of interest. The office ties you down even as the rumbling roar of the ocean beckons you shore-side. A leisurely, enjoyable life and the necessity of work are often in conflict. Sometimes, husband and wife are in conflict. Sometimes that conflict leads to divorce, but there the conflicts of interests should stop. If you and your ...
Walden Pond author Henry David Thoreau helped invent the #2 pencil. According to Mental Floss, the graphite used in 1. This odd historical tidbit is not random, because most people use the #2 pencil to fill out standardized exams, surveys, and questionnaires. In legal circles, a typical questionnaire is the interrogatory, a written series of questions related to a criminal or ...
Red flags can mean the start of battle, wildfire risk, or dangerous swimming conditions. One of our favorites: the bright red Bravo flag of the International Code of Signals1 means you’re carrying explosives. In divorce, red flags fly up for all sorts of reasons. Here are the biggest red flags that could be fluttering in your future. Your Wife Hasn’t Hired ...
Despite some historic and current hiccups, our nation is still a jewel of democracy in a sea of conflict. People from all over the world still clamor to get into the United States, and many of those set their sights on settling in Virginia. Most people enter our country legally, and many of those apply for citizenship. A Virginia divorce ...
They have ordered cat food after hearing a commercial on television. They have secretly recorded a family’s conversation and sent it to a family contact. One of them has even intruded into a business meeting to order a dating game for a woman not wanting or needing a dating game. A few more of these anecdotes make us wonder if ...
Who cannot be stirred by the great Patrick Henry, American patriot? This famous Virginian, eyewitness to the founding of our nation, is remembered not only for “Give me liberty, or give me death,” but also for the Virginia Yazoo Company1. Huh? You hadn’t heard? Yeah, Patrick Henry was involved in a fraudulent land scheme. He headed the aforementioned Virginia Yazoo ...
In the midst of a Virginia divorce, many a military man can lose sight of a valuable asset that plays a key role in that divorce: your military retirement. Today’s Coast Guardsman, for example, can choose from the High-3 retirement plan or the Redux/Career Status Bonus (CSB) plan. Add to the mix the new Blended Retirement System (BRS) and you ...