Though they may appear to never step down from their lofty perches behind the judge’s bench, Virginia’s judges really are just regular folks, aware of how little time other Virginians have for the often drawn-out pomp and procedures of a family law courtroom. A shortage of time is part of the reason for the 2003 creation of Virginia’s Judicial Settlement Conference ...
Ah, marriage! As James Joyce once said in his work, Ulysses, “What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own.” If your marriage started off with the two of you sharing everything 100 percent, but now you are trying to claw back roughly half of everything from a woman you now consider (to borrow from Dickens) a “grasping, clutching, ...
After your divorce, who owns your home? Though financially and legally you or ex-wife may own it, you do have the option to let your kids have the house. Not unsupervised, like some 21st century version of The Little Rascals, but by having each parent take turns living in the family home during their parenting time. This technique, in which the ...
Almost nobody plays Monopoly by the printed rules. A genuine game of Monopoly takes approximately eleventy-seven hours, so most people make up their own ways to play so that, if they started at sunup, they stand a reasonable chance to finish by supper time. By Monopoly’s printed rules, the Banker is supposed to hold an auction for any property a ...
You may argue the political disingenuousness of the name of the recently passed tax law, “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” depending on whether or not you are an American receiving either meaningful tax cuts and/or an improved job. Pushing aside the benefits you may or may not see from the law that was passed, locked within the Act’s broadly sweeping ...
You cannot make this stuff up: the FBI is looking for “The Chameleon Beard Bandit,”1 a bank robber who has robbed six banks, including two in Virginia, using the clever ruse of changing the color of his beard. If you feel your wife (bearded or not — we’re not judging) has essentially robbed you by cleaning out your bank accounts, ...
Shakespeare thought little of names. Why else did he have Juliet Capulet say, “What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet ...” For The Bard, the substance of a person or object was found in its essence, not its name. You may not feel so gracious if your ex-wife is continuing ...
Pixar’s Finding Nemo came out in 2003 and we will bet that 14 years later you did not notice it recreates Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s “Five Stages of Grief” hypothesis. The movie adds support to the running theme of Pixar films: they are all little psychological test cases. The emotional buffet of Inside Out, Up, Brave and others has been well explored ...
Take a good look at your brothers and sisters; for most of us, family is an oasis of affection amid a sea of indifference. Your brothers and sisters are probably typical Virginians; not the homeliest creatures to walk the earth, but not glamour-model good looking, either. They probably have their share of troubles and bad habits, too. Families are nature’s ...