Your wife cleverly squirreled away some of her money in cryptocurrency, assuming it was out of reach in divorce. You, who still have trouble remembering your ATM PIN, have no idea what a Bitcoin even is, or where Ethereum might be on a map. How could cryptocurrency even be an asset in Virginia divorce? And how can you find out ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) loves to give tests. There’s two phrases sure to head straight to your heart, and make it jump: IRS and tests. Publication 5041 includes a section called “Tests To Be A Qualifying Child.” Before you leap to that fascinating reading, though, be aware that the answer to the question, “Who Claims the Children on Taxes ...
If you owned a stock that climbed 33 percent in value from 2014 to 2019, you would rightfully think of yourself as the next Warren Buffet. That percentage, though, is the increase in the amount of student loan debt incurred in the United States in that five-year period, according to Investopedia1. If a sliver of that debt is in your ...
This article is not about money. We know, child support means money, but the root of this issue is paternity, not money. If you are paying child support for children who are not yours, you have a paternity problem that has created a money problem. Here is what you can do about both. Asserting Your Rights Without appearing to be ...
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 ...
The COVID-19 emergency that has gripped Virginia and the world has rippled through every part of our lives. If you pay either spousal support or child support in Virginia and have been affected by COVID-19, you should know about legal remedies that may help. Closed Courts The Virginia Supreme Court’s original judicial emergency order has been extended, keeping most courts ...
Thomas Aquinas, medieval philosopher, offered two sides of one argument when he said, "It would seem that several angels can be at the same time in the same place. For several bodies cannot be at the same time in the same place, because they fill the place. But the angels do not fill a place..."1 This has morphed into the idiomatic ...
We are going to do you the courtesy of avoiding any reference to a certain Disney animated movie that begins with F and has r-o-z-e in the middle and ends in n, even if its name appears in our title. I think most Dads are a bit ... worn out? ... by that particular cinematic gem. But we do need ...
Real estate financing markets roil with the slightest hint of news. Recently, even amid a strong economy, as reported in the Washington Post “the 30-year fixed-rate average [for mortgages] shot up to 3.73 percent.”1 This happened because the Federal Reserve nudged its rate higher. You may not be a financial wizard, but if you are divorcing in Virginia, you face ...