Family Law

What is an Interruption in Separation in Virginia?

He was an unusual political candidate, Lee Carter was. While running for the House of Delegates in 2017, he admitted to, among other things according to the Chicago Sun-Times1, having explicit photos of himself on the internet, being unable to hold a job, and proceeding through his third divorce. Instead of hiding his dirty laundry, he advertised it, a highly unusual move. ...

By |December 17th, 2018|

Can My Ex-Wife’s New Husband Make Decisions For or About My Kids?

Blended families, nuclear families, step families, grandparent families and single parent families. Today's social structures would largely be unrecognizable to past generations. When your ex-wife sets out on her own (probably with considerable financial support from you), she starts a new variation on your original family structure. If that new variation includes a new man, you may worry about the second ...

By |December 14th, 2018|

5 of The Most Surprisingly Common Reasons for Divorce

Americans enjoy talking about themselves. If you want to know why somebody does something, ask them. Psychologists ask lots of people lots of questions about sexuality, marriage, bad habits, and divorce. They compile the answers into research papers and then announce findings. Over the years, hundreds of such papers have analyzed reasons people divorce. Some may surprise you; others seem so expected ...

By |December 10th, 2018|

Is There Such Thing as Emotional Adultery?

The signs in this electronic age may be more than you can bear: she gets texts at odd hours or late in the night; she turns off her laptop when you walk into the room. She hangs up the phone or does not take a call when you are nearby. What is she up to? She is still intimate with ...

By |December 3rd, 2018|

Separation Agreements: 7 To-Dos and 5 To-Don’ts

We don't have a lot of space here to fuss around, so let's get right to it: you can ruin a straight and clean path to divorce by ignoring the fine points of a separation agreement, leaving you and your wife in the weeds of incrimination, indecision, and accusation. Please consider these seven To-Dos and five Don'ts as you set about ...

By |November 30th, 2018|

My Wife is Leaving Because of My Sex/Porn Addiction … What Do I Do?

She is not much to look at, the Venus of Willendorf1. Short, morbidly obese by today's standards, and with a knit cap completely covering her head, she is a four-inch, naked, stone figurine. But in 30,000 BCE, she may have been Paleolithic man's porn. My, how times have changed. With the advent of the internet, pornography has flourished and spread across ...

By |November 28th, 2018|
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