Dear Jason, My ex-wife was so uncaring about my pain from our separation and divorce, I could not bear to go home so I spent the next six weeks sleeping on the floor of a friend’s house. What should I do? Your Friend, Brad Dear Brad, I notice your separation and divorce was important enough to make the newspapers ...
The Latin word bono is, to our ears, naturally funny. “Bone-oh,” as in Sonny Bono or Matteo Bono. You cannot count Paul David Hewson, aka Bono, because he pronounces it “Bahno.” There is also pro bono, Latin shorthand for pro bono publico, “for the public good.” The law is supposed to mete out justice, but Justice, blind as she is, ...
The original G.I. Joe doll — sorry, action figure — came on the scene in 1964, and has been a hit ever since. G.I. Joe is immortal, but real GIs not only leave the service, they go on to other, great things, like college. The Post-9/11 GI Bill is an enormously valuable asset earned through military service. The benefits from ...
Little children go through a biting stage. Frustrated, unable to wield words and angered that other humans are not complying, they bite. They bite other children; they bite caregivers and preschool teachers. It is a petulance and stubbornness most of us outgrow. When cornered by adult worries, though, we sometimes revert to very infantile choices, like refusing to sign divorce papers ...
The intersection of medicine and law often lead to carts before horses, as when medicine has honed surrogate pregnancy to a nearly mundane thing, while Virginia’s laws creep to catch up. We noticed the D.C. Council recently lifted its 25-year ban on surrogacy contracts1, which made us consider the many ways surrogacy and divorce can become entwined. Surrogacy intersects divorce ...
You faced a difficult decision to separate from your wife. You arranged your life so that, after you broke the news to her, you could quietly slip away, out of her life for six months to a year before filing for divorce. You retreated to a tiny, dingy motel room unreliably lit by a single bare bulb swaying from a ...
A property settlement agreement or separation agreement in a Virginia divorce is like the world’s weirdest grocery list. It will have a lot of details on it, in odd juxtaposition, and not a single item can be left out or you will certainly regret it later. In a moment of inspiration, we put together this convenient checklist while picking up ...
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 ...