Dr. Phil is not a medical doctor or licensed psychologist. He has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. Having said that, and acknowledging he is not any more qualified to offer psychology than your local bartender, he does speak plain truths to complicated people. Want to watch him skewer selfish parents dealing with divorce? You can watch the drama here, or ...
Financial gurus will tell you: a new car purchase is really three deals (sell the old car; buy the new car; arrange the financing). Car dealers want all that to happen on their lots. Financial advisers tell you to keep the three deals apart. The principle holds true with divvying up marital property during separation and divorce: keep the deals ...
If you are a military man, you live and work at the whim of the military. Just as your children have almost no input into decisions that affect them, you have little input into decisions affecting you. You rise in rank and earn more pay; you are unlikely to say no to those decisions. You are relocated to a distant base; you have to ...
Much of the time on these pages, we take a bit of a sassy approach to family law matters. With the worldwide pandemic from COVID-19, we are setting aside our usual stand-up routine and standing up for you, Virginia’s men, as you attempt to deal with the Virginia courts. Here is what can and cannot be done in these perilous ...
Olivia Roehm weighs 111 pounds. Or, she did the day she and husband Jerome Roehm won the 2019 North American Wife Carrying Championship1, held in October in Maine. We're not being nosy — the winning couple got five times the wife's weight in cash (in Olivia's case, $555), plus her weight in beer (six cases). We bring this up because many a Virginia man feels ...
If you signed a separation agreement under duress, you don’t want to miss this. If you’re unsure what "duress" means, just ask Jared and Lindsay Rowley, who entered into an oral contract with Jesse Dimmick not to turn him over to the police. According to the American Bar Association, Dimmick and the Rowleys sealed their oral agreement upon the event of Dimmick ...
Perhaps you and your wife woke up after a three-day honeymoon at Busch Gardens and realized you hardly know each other. Perhaps you both came to the conclusion, after a few years of earnestly trying, that you are simply not right for each other. No hard feelings, no bruised egos — you are both just ready to move on. You may ...
How good are you at negotiating? Most people tend to exaggerate their own negotiating abilities, from presidents on down to next door neighbors. In getting to an equitable (we didn't say equal) divorce settlement, negotiating is key. Equitable Versus Equal Imagine you and your wife have three children. Imagine you are all staring at five cookie jars tucked away on top ...
We turn today to those noted legal authorities, Monty Python's Flying Circus1, who have previously explained — in a single three-minute children's show — how to play the flute, split the atom, construct box girder bridges, and irrigate the Sahara to make vast new areas cultivatable. For many Virginia men, creating a divorce settlement agreement may seem as elusive as those ...