My Ex In-laws are Trying to Make My Kids Hate Me … What Should I Do?
When you divorce your wife, you also divorce her family. That moment is a huge reset button for relationships. Any veneer of cordiality is ripped away. Any ...
Post-divorce Matters: Updating Your Will After Your Divorce
How will your life change after a divorce? Much like stopping smoking, your body will know immediately that you have shed some of the worry, stress, ...
What is an Emergency Custody Hearing For?
Sometimes in these pages we joke around a bit, get a little weird, or push a few buttons. Yet one area is always off-limits to those ...
What is Considered a “Reasonable Medical Cost”?
Who is a reasonable person? A reasonable person, simply put, can make commonsense decisions just as you or we would. We have handed the American legal system ...
My Child’s Mother Won’t Let Me Have Overnights – Is that Allowed?
In Virginia, some parents have an interesting (if inaccurate) view of court documents. Apparently, they feel they are optional, as in, the parent can ignore the ...
Should My Family and I Seek Counseling After Divorce?
The clothes wringer was invented in the 1880s by a woman, Ellen Elgin, and is still sold today. We mention it in passing because many of ...
Do I Have to Pay Half of Medical If It’s Not in the Child Support Order?
You can be forgiven for thinking lawyers could write a 180-page handbook for using shampoo. Legal "briefs" tend to be anything but brief, and legal pads ...
Bucking Your Lawyer: Why It’s Never a Good Idea … and What to Do Instead
Representing yourself in court is almost always a bad idea, as Eric Saub found while acting as his own attorney.1 Saub ignored a judge's advice to ...
How Does Primary Physical Custody Work in Virginia?
Kevin Walter, Virginia turkey hunter, most definitely did not have custody of the charging bobcat1. The word "custody" means "immediate charge and control exercised by a person ...