George C. Parker had an interesting, if illegal, livelihood. Twice a week for some thirty years, he sold the Brooklyn Bridge to unsuspecting victims, according to the New York Daily News1. He also sold people Madison Square Garden and the Statue of Liberty2. We suppose, if you bargained well, he would have sold you all three prime properties in a ...
“It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt,” says author Marty Rubin. If you depend on your ex-wife to refinance your marital home after a divorce and she does not, she faces more than just your contempt. She faces a contempt of court charge from a Virginia Circuit Court judge. Refi Gone Awry? We will get into the details of ...
Justice is blind in sculptor Raymond Kaskey’s 1994 piece1 in front of the Albert V Bryan Federal District Courthouse in Alexandria. Justice is also a woman. Her sex is owed to her ancient history, say experts quoted in the New York Times2, with the Egyptian goddess Maat weighing humans’ souls on her scales. Her blindfold is a more recent addition, ...
Chessie the Chesapeake Bay sea monster probably does not exist. Snallygasters and Bigfoot may or may not exist in Virginia; the odds are against either of them, despite the hype provided by sites like Mysterious Universe1. One other mythical Virginia fantasy is the legal separation. In Virginia, you cannot claim “legal separation;” you can be separated, or you can be ...
In 2000 — the latest year data are available from the U.S. Census — 6.4 percent of Virginia’s homes were mobile homes. The 185,282 manufactured homes are a sharp increase over the number of such homes in 1950, when 4,508 mobile homes accounted for only 0.5 percent of our Commonwealth’s housing. We are a mobile culture; we move around a ...
From 13 October 1775 to today, the U.S. Navy has defended the seas, patrolled hostile waters, and served as the principal hauler of all the other branches—their equipment, their weapons, and their personnel. Its official website tallies 325,673 active duty men and women serving on, above, next to, and under the water. Some of those Navy men, like men anywhere, ...
Having your home vandalized is heartbreaking, threatening, and frightening. It is made all the worse if you suspect your spouse is responsible for the vandalism. How could this happen? If she is living in your marital home during your separation, and the home is to be sold as part of the property settlement agreement, she may think this one last ...
Drug and alcohol abuse have legal consequences that affect wide swaths of society, but society’s attitudes toward chemical dependency are changing. What was once a moral failing may now be considered a medical or mental illness. The law, though, is playing catch up with these attitudes. If your divorce is complicated by substance abuse, you need strong legal help. Hate ...
An old joke of P.G. Wodehouse novels1 is the costly indulgence of sending a telegram. In the stodgy old days of vintage telegram communications, stage stars received opening-night accolades via telegram, hearts broke from pithy little memoranda, and everyone was impressed that the sender spent so much money on something billed by the word. American Telegram nowadays charges $34.95 plus ...