J.P. Morgan is said to have uttered the flippant and famous quip, “If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.” That was easy for him to say; he was a robber baron, paid almost no tax (ever), and lived in a time (the 19th and early 20th centuries) when Virginians had lifetime earnings that seldom ...
The Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia (LASEVA) is fighting a virtuous but daunting battle. In Virginia (according to The Virginia Bar Association), low-income folks share just one legal aid lawyer for every 6,184 people. So how helpful could Legal Aid be with your Virginia divorce? Jump to a Section The Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia Your Odds Federal ...
Since 2004 folks have turned to Indeed to find jobs and employees. Want to become a lawyer? The average base salary for attorneys is $98,822 nationwide, claims Indeed1. Is that how much your Virginia divorce lawyer will make in a year? Probably not. As a potential client, you want to know what you will pay. Legal services, however, are not ...
You are free, free, free! After divorce, embrace that heady feeling of being on your own again. You’re free to set your own schedule, free to eat what you want, free to go where you like. Don’t worry about getting too cocky. Real life will intrude. The car loan must be paid, rent or mortgage is due every month, and ...
The American economy is a bit like Schrödinger’s famous cat, simultaneously in a recession and not in a recession. The answer depends on your source, with Forbes saying we have been in a recession since the summer of 2022 and Bloomberg saying no, we dodged that label. Still, economic uncertainty can cast a cloud on a marriage, with both spouses ...
We have all witnessed the tawdry spectacle of brutal, nasty, embarrassing Hollywood divorces like Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, or Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Yet even the most benign, quiet Virginia divorce can have its ugly moments. Rather than reveal any weird personal habits, both parties must provide financial disclosures. Jump to a Section Financial Disclosures in Virginia Divorce ...
Cursive handwriting is a lost art. That is why most of us have no idea what “cross the T’s and dot the I’s” originally meant. The connected letters of cursive required the writer to return to the completed word to, literally, cross the ascending t and place a dot over every i. At any rate, with divorce, every attorney knows ...
This nation’s first military pensions gave our fighting soldiers not money, but land. According to the National Archives, on September 16, 1776, Congress passed a resolution promising up to 1,100 acres of “free land in the public domain to officers and soldiers who continued to serve during the Revolutionary War or, if they were killed, to their representatives or heirs.” ...
Hollywood screenwriters are clearly masochists. A Hollywood disaster flick will send hordes of zombies into a burning hi-rise orphanage during an earthquake. Estate planning during your Virginia divorce, though? Not even a Hollywood script writer would dare such a thing. Protecting Yourself on Multiple Fronts If you feel like your divorce is more than you can handle, you may be ...