Wouldn’t we all like to not have to work? While for most of us that is a daydream, for some women it is a conscious strategy in a divorce. The “logic” your ex-wife uses is, with no visible income, she will require you to provide spousal support, so that she (and potentially your children) can continue to live as they ...
The origin of the word “secretary,” for both the furniture and the person, is the Latin word secretum, meaning secret. Secretaries (furniture; person) help you hide secrets. Sometimes the cabinet makers building secretaries went a bit overboard, as with the Roentgens' Berlin Secretary, which was carefully filmed while on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art1. If you wanted to ...
Attorney-client privilege really exists. It is not to be taken lightly either by members of the legal profession or their clients. You hear the phrase bandied about on TV shows, or you read it in a Scott Turow novel. Yet it often overshadows a more vital concept that seldom makes its way into popular fiction, television and movies. Lawyer confidentiality, ...
The tax consequences of separation and divorce tend to sneak up on men and surprise them, roughly around the middle of April each year. While you spend nearly 50 weeks trying to put the inconvenience, mental anguish and emotional upheaval out of your mind, for around two weeks every April Virginia’s local and state governments (and the federal government) like ...
Who owns the digital version of you? We have become so accustomed to our digital world of social media, emails, instant messages, and photos of cats that we seldom consider who owns all that information. With the U.S. House of Representatives voting to undermine internet privacy1, this is no longer an academic question. When in the process of a divorce ...
Discovery is in Chantilly, Virginia. The Space Transportation System (STS) orbiter Discovery has an honored place at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center, right here in Virginia. It is a big, beautiful piece of flown space hardware, a veteran of 39 trips into the cold emptiness of outer space. An understandable source of pride for all Virginians, this Discovery is a far ...
At The Firm for Men we respect our clients because we maintain strictly professional relationships with them; we are not compelled to live with their choices and decisions. This matters when we have clients whose personal choices do not always jive with our own, and that is absolutely okay. Take clients who are hoping to end an open marriage; it ...
Divorce is fraught with every kind of emotion, but one of the major highlights is financial terror. What was once yours, is now ours, and future possession is up for debate. You may be asking, what about the inheritance I got from my grandparents? Or, the summer cottage that has been in my family for years? Along with 40 other ...
If you are in the midst of divorce season, you may not have time to binge-watch HBO’s supremely sought-after, six-season slaughter spree, Game of Thrones (GoT). Fear not; we can provide a thoroughly clear summary of all the characters and all 60 episodes with our next 147 articles ... [editor’s note: no you can’t] ... Due to circumstances beyond our control, ...
