If you had a BINGO board for our blog articles, the “best interests of the child” would get covered in every game. Today we are talking about clawing back rights related to child custody in Virginia, which means everybody’s favorite phrase—let’s just call it the BIC—will make multiple guest appearances. Jump to a Section Virginia Custody Explained The Best Interests ...
Down through the years many a man has dreamed of being a stay-at-home Dad (SAHD), and in recent decades that dream job has become much more attainable. Based on the 2010 census, Fathers.com cites around 190,000 SAHDs. But as a SAHD, when your wife wants a divorce, what happens to you and your kids? What rights do you have? What ...
Who taught you to regulate your emotions? Most of us cannot point to a specific person or moment when we learned to control our anger, to express love, to handle our fears. You can do your children a huge, lifelong favor by using a technique — emotion coaching — to teach your children self-regulation. The advantage? Less work for you ...
Being in control of your emotions and responses to situations makes you a fully functioning adult. Someone attempting to control another fully functioning adult could be suffering from narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) or borderline personality disorder (BPD). Controlling people provide plenty of warning signs they are trying to control you. Watch for the signs, and stay safe out there! It’s ...
Separation and divorce in Virginia are very, very old. The 1607 Jamestown colonists reported abandonment and divorce among the Native Americans they encountered, according to Encyclopedia Virginia1. The Powhatans recognized the need for each gender to contribute to daily life. Any disruption to that model needed quick remedies. Stay-at-home spouses still need support more than four centuries later. Equitable Division ...
BRIDES is the oldest magazine of its kind in the world. Since 1934 BRIDES magazine has been dispensing practical advice and impractical fantasies to starry-eyed women. So, the appearance of an article on divorce in the magazine seems, well, unbridled. Still, many grooms and brides want to know exactly how to start that conversation. Veiled Threat? Love is a powerful ...
The longest bare-knuckle fight in history lasted six hours, fifteen minutes for 17 rounds, according to Australian Geographic1. The 1855 spectacle is not meant to set a bar for you and your spouse to overcome. Consider these reasons not to fight in front of your children. When You Fight, Everyone Loses A fight necessarily involves sides, and when your children ...
Is your monthly rent above or below $1,257? The U.S. Census bureau reports1 that Virginia’s median gross residential rent from 2016 through 2020 was $1,257, an odd number. That means sharing the costs of a lease goes down to the dimes. You and your wife each have to kick in $628.50, but by having each of you pay and each ...
If you look at some legal papers, lawyers seem to be paid by the word. We aren’t, but we do love our language. We revel in Latin phrases; we delight in odd constructions like estoppel and demurrer. So what can we unpack in a basic word like cheap? Does it only mean something acquired at low cost? Or do you ...