Rose Ditano of Penhook, Virginia (over there in Franklin County) won $1 million in the Virginia Lottery recently1. She got it all in a lump sum, electronically deposited into her account. Spouses hoping for lump sum spousal support probably feel — if only for an instant — as happy and lucky as Rose. So what is lump sum spousal support? ...
Whether you have won sole physical custody of your toddler or are sharing custody, you face every Dad’s coming-of-age moment: daycare. Virginia Dads can and should be just as responsible for their toddlers’ social and intellectual development as Virginia Moms. Practice with Others (Tips #1 and #2) The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) suggests introducing other adults ...
Ungendered clothing often looks like the comfy stuff you put on after taking off the business-day uncomfy stuff. Sweatpants, roomy tee shirts; nothing fancy, and good for a guy or a gal. Are attorneys really cut from the same cloth? Does the gender of your attorney matter in your Virginia divorce? Does focusing on gender matter? For any firm that ...
France’s 1789 document, Declaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen1, translates as Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. It says nothing of stepparents. That oversight, however, was definitely not the cause of the French Revolution, though we are sure plenty of disgruntled stepparents played roles in crushing the ancien régime. What rights do stepparents have ...
True or false (it’s okay — you’re not sworn in): Electronic ankle bracelets were inspired by a Spider Man comic. That is true, says CBR.com1. Judge Jack Love read a Spider Man comic strip about a villain tracking Spidey with such a bracelet and asked computer salesman Michael T. Goss to make it. In 1983, the ankle monitor was born. After ...
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 ...