In Virginia, adultery is one of the fault grounds for divorce. It is ugly and sometimes challenging to prove legally, but of the fault grounds, it is one of the more benign malignancies. Your other choices of what to level against your wife are buggery, sodomy, or felony, among others. If adultery is legally proven, though, what does that do ...
The hardest athletic endeavor anywhere in the world is to swing a bat in a professional baseball game. This is not just the baseball fans here in our offices talking; the great Ted Williams said it1, and he should know. He hit .400 for an entire season, the last of the big-time hitters to do that. So what manager in ...
The recent revelation that Equifax, one of the three big credit-reporting agencies, suffered an enormous data breach1 has many Virginians upset, and rightly so. Yet divorced Virginia men may have already had far more personal reasons to feel threatened: the risk of technostalking by an estranged spouse or, after a divorce, an ex-wife. Technostalking means using technology to track, monitor or spy ...
In Virginia you will not hear the word “alimony” much, if at all. The preferred and legal term is “spousal support,” and it nearly always falls to Virginia’s men to pay their ex-wives spousal support, rather than the ex-wives paying the men. Many Virginia men rightfully want to put an end to spousal support payments, which can seem to drag ...
Most adult men are not whiners. They do not complain incessantly about how unfair life is; adults leave that to developing children and teens. If ever a circumstance could make a Virginia man feel like whining, though, it would be after a divorce. The divorce, custody and visitation laws of the Commonwealth are not written with the best interests of ...
Virginia Beach native Pharrell Lanscilo Williams married Helen Lasichanh on October 12, 2013. A mere 40 days later, on November 21, 2013, a little song he had put together, “Happy,” came out. Pharrell was 40 and a modest success already; the song, of course, made him a huge success. It also made him wealthier and much more famous. Williams and ...
You divorced your wife in Virginia some time ago. You two, and your attorneys, worked out a visitation schedule so you got to see little Paulie and Peggy Sue every other weekend. Things were fine until summer, and then all of a sudden your ex-wife kept making excuses why your own children were not available for your scheduled visitation times. ...
This isn’t the first time we’ve spoken about adultery here. Adultery is one of those topics most people politely skirt with euphemisms and more left unsaid than said. Yet in a Virginia court, when claiming your wife committed adultery, you need to legally prove it. How do you prove your wife had sex with another person outside your marriage? Adultery ...
While struggling through the many twists and turns of a child custody case, you may encounter a term that seems ripped from television drama: forensic evaluation. Today the word “forensic” is most often associated with a crime, but its origin is from Latin and simply means “in open court,” or “public.” A court may order a forensic evaluation to determine ...