You are free, free, free! After divorce, embrace that heady feeling of being on your own again. You’re free to set your own schedule, free to eat what you want, free to go where you like. Don’t worry about getting too cocky. Real life will intrude. The car loan must be paid, rent or mortgage is due every month, and ...
Iurisperiti et eorum lingua Latina! Lawyers and their Latin—where you might say “cut that out,” lawyers will assert an estoppel. We could give a dozen examples but check out “pendente lite” orders. Uh, that would be temporary orders in divorce, child custody, and parent visitation, thankyouverymuch. Jump to a Section Why a Temporary Order? What Does a Temporary Order Do? ...
The American economy is a bit like Schrödinger’s famous cat, simultaneously in a recession and not in a recession. The answer depends on your source, with Forbes saying we have been in a recession since the summer of 2022 and Bloomberg saying no, we dodged that label. Still, economic uncertainty can cast a cloud on a marriage, with both spouses ...
Running away from home in Virginia is two things: a rite of passage for children and a perfectly legal act. As the City of Virginia Beach explains on their Runaway Children web page, the police do not investigate a runaway teen as a criminal. That may be small comfort when your teenager shows up at your doorstep when you are ...
We have all witnessed the tawdry spectacle of brutal, nasty, embarrassing Hollywood divorces like Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, or Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Yet even the most benign, quiet Virginia divorce can have its ugly moments. Rather than reveal any weird personal habits, both parties must provide financial disclosures. Jump to a Section Financial Disclosures in Virginia Divorce ...
The lowest possible Social Security number, 001-01-0001, went to a woman named Grace D. Owen, of Concord, New Hampshire. At least, that’s according to the Social Security Administration itself, but the symbolic number was a bit of a hot potato. It wasn’t even the first number issued. Social Security has a lot of weirdness to it, especially as it pertains ...
Pundits have already christened the freshmen in college as The Pandemic Generation. According to website WhatToBecome, about one-quarter of college freshmen enroll in remedial classes, attempting to compensate for deficiencies in their high school instruction. What can separated or divorced parents do to help their struggling college kids in the age of COVID-19? Jump to a Section Who Are The ...
Cursive handwriting is a lost art. That is why most of us have no idea what “cross the T’s and dot the I’s” originally meant. The connected letters of cursive required the writer to return to the completed word to, literally, cross the ascending t and place a dot over every i. At any rate, with divorce, every attorney knows ...
What can you get done in 60 days? In Virginia, you have to get a state driver’s license within 60 days of moving into the Commonwealth. In Great Britain, you can have two Prime Ministers in less than 60 days. You can also while away 60 days in jail in Virginia for violating a protective order—say, for domestic violence. Jump ...