Hello. Your call is important to us. Allow us to leave you on hold for an indefinite period, repeatedly telling you how important you are to us without us actually having to listen to you. If you are in the military, please consider speaking with your JAG office before speaking with us. Hello. Your call is important to us. Military ...
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” Mary Shelley was only 21 when her novel, Frankenstein, was published. Her masterwork included that telling sentence. Of course, the change she was talking about was, er, um, the construction of a human from cadaver bits, but it could just as well have been the change ...
“It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt,” says author Marty Rubin. If you depend on your ex-wife to refinance your marital home after a divorce and she does not, she faces more than just your contempt. She faces a contempt of court charge from a Virginia Circuit Court judge. Refi Gone Awry? We will get into the details of ...
Chessie the Chesapeake Bay sea monster probably does not exist. Snallygasters and Bigfoot may or may not exist in Virginia; the odds are against either of them, despite the hype provided by sites like Mysterious Universe1. One other mythical Virginia fantasy is the legal separation. In Virginia, you cannot claim “legal separation;” you can be separated, or you can be ...
Divorce in Virginia is generally a long process, beginning with a long period of separation (up to a year) and then continuing through the actual, often drawn-out divorce proceedings. During those many months, your children are still growing. Your son may have been a high school junior when you separated from your wife, but by the time your divorce is ...
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. And yes, Virginians, there is a reconciliation clause. In the first case, poetic license allowed Francis Pharcellus Church of the New York Sun newspaper1 to answer young Virginia O’Hanlon’s letter about St. Nick back in 1897. In the second case, reconciliation clauses are commonly used in property settlement agreements. In both cases, though, ...
Backyardchickens.com (We know you don’t believe us, but it exists) offers helpful advice on getting your chickens to lay their eggs in their nest boxes, and the secret lies in putting fake eggs where you want the chickens to lay real ones. This is the origin of the term “nest egg,” because once you start the golden egg-laying, it does ...
Unless intertwined with some unusual circumstances, divorce in Virginia is a civil, not a criminal, matter. While you can be charged with filing a false police report under Virginia Code § 18.2-461, if you change your mind after filing for divorce, you have not committed any crime and cannot be charged with filing a false divorce petition. Undoing what you ...
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 ...