The hardest athletic endeavor anywhere in the world is to swing a bat in a professional baseball game. This is not just the baseball fans here in our offices talking; the great Ted Williams said it1, and he should know. He hit .400 for an entire season, the last of the big-time hitters to do that. So what manager in ...
The recent revelation that Equifax, one of the three big credit-reporting agencies, suffered an enormous data breach1 has many Virginians upset, and rightly so. Yet divorced Virginia men may have already had far more personal reasons to feel threatened: the risk of technostalking by an estranged spouse or, after a divorce, an ex-wife. Technostalking means using technology to track, monitor or spy ...
In Virginia you will not hear the word “alimony” much, if at all. The preferred and legal term is “spousal support,” and it nearly always falls to Virginia’s men to pay their ex-wives spousal support, rather than the ex-wives paying the men. Many Virginia men rightfully want to put an end to spousal support payments, which can seem to drag ...
This isn’t the first time we’ve spoken about adultery here. Adultery is one of those topics most people politely skirt with euphemisms and more left unsaid than said. Yet in a Virginia court, when claiming your wife committed adultery, you need to legally prove it. How do you prove your wife had sex with another person outside your marriage? Adultery ...
National Coming Out Day is October 11 (yes, that's the day this was published!), a tradition begun in 1988. Every year, lesbians and gay men find the courage to come out as homosexual, often to the shame and scorn of family and friends. Just as often, of course, they are supported and loved for their decision to share something so ...
A chasm is not a canyon. Consider the Grand Canyon, very deep but also very wide. Seeing it is awe-inspiring and humbling. Consider, though, a deep, narrow fissure, so deep you cannot see the bottom. It is far more terrifying than awesome. Couples facing marital separation may feel a wide canyon separates them, but the fear they feel really means ...
Don Denkinger probably wishes people had asked him to mediate first base instead of arbitrate it. His infamous blown call in the 1985 Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series allowed the Kansas City Royals to rally and take Game 6, forcing a Game 7, which they won against the St. Louis Cardinals. Denkinger was not asked for advice at first base; ...
Would you ever leave your children in a locked car in a parking lot, alone? Probably not. Would you ever go to a nightclub with your wife, but leave without her? Probably not. Final question: would you ever walk out the door, saying you were running to the store for milk and would be back in 20 minutes, only to ...
Few students of literature these days can easily recall Robert Frost’s Mending Wall1, but it begins with the famous “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” and ends with the ironic and eloquent, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Property disputes in divorce remind us of the sad irony and wistful despondency of Frost’s poem. The blithe neighbor in the ...