You get what you pay for. The old expression works two ways: you have to live with the cheap choice you made, or you can enjoy the benefits of paying for a superior product or service. In Virginia, you do not need to pay for a family law attorney at all in divorce; you can try to go it alone. ...
In Virginia, parents can be awarded joint legal custody, joint physical custody, or a combination of the two. In joint legal custody, the responsibility for the care and supervision of the child is shared equally between the two parents, and both are able to make important decisions regarding the child. Parents can share joint legal custody, even when the primary ...
“To sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there’s the rub.” Shakespeare meant, with Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, for his character to contemplate his own death, a different sort of sleep than the one we enjoy nightly. A third meaning of sleep exists, however, besides a little shuteye or a grim demise. If your wife is no longer sleeping — having sex — with you, ...
Talk to any teenager today and you need a dictionary of slang to understand. Words that start off as polysyllabic suddenly truncate to words indistinguishable from grunts. Bae means “baby;” woke stands in for “stay alert and aware;” a thing that is lit is really wonderful. So from the same search for brevity we get fam for family and prenup ...
Federal employees have access to an excellent program for retirement savings, the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). If you are a federal employee with a TSP account you may wonder what becomes of your account after divorce. What does she get, and what do you get? The ABCs of TSPs A TSP account is a useful investment vehicle for Federal civilian ...
In 1940, the World was gearing up for war. Many countries were already in the fight. Nazis occupied Poland, and on September 27, the Axis Powers officially formed as Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union signed the Tripartite Pact. In the midst of global turmoil, the United States Congress enacted the Soldier's and Sailor's Civil Relief Act of 1940 (SSCRA). ...
Divorces are extremely complicated and, to some extent at least, are all a little messy in their own right. Depending on your personal circumstances and what you get or don't get out of the divorce in terms of custody, possessions, or other rights, your emotions and dignity may be attacked and left vulnerable. As divorce lawyers for men, we know there are ...
Martha Dandridge Custis, poor woman, was married to her first husband a mere seven years before he up and died on her, leaving her — at the tender age of 25 — with two small children. Well, we say poor woman, but Daniel Parke Custis left her a pile of money, real estate, and other property. She was quite the ...
Divorce is never a walk in the park. It frequently demands much more than checking some boxes, filing a few documents, and Voilà, you're free. A Legal Zoom divorce may work for some couples—those who have been married for a short time, have no children, no assets, do not need alimony, and agree on everything, including the divorce, may fit ...