Gone are the days of dunce caps and willow switches to force kids to behave in school. The same problems underlying outbursts in the 1800s, though, still haunt our children. Difficult home lives, low self-esteem, being bullied; all these problems are everlasting in schools from Virginia to Vladivostok. As a parent, you are not helpless. Here's what you can do to ...
The Virginia Catholic Conference1 says 8.3 percent of Virginians are Catholics. We mention Catholics because the Catholic church has well-known, strong views on divorce. While not a sin, divorce carries extra weight for Catholics. They cannot remarry without having the first marriage annulled by a Catholic diocesan tribunal, according to Franciscan Media, a ministry of the Franciscan Friars. Divorce and ...
Standards of conduct for Virginias Guardians ad litem (GAL) exist; you can find them through Virginia's courts. The problem is not what is written on the paper. The problem, for many Virginia men, is how the actual person, the one fulfilling the valuable role of child advocate, handles the job day to day. Personal bias, what appears to be a predetermined ...
We turn today to those noted legal authorities, Monty Python's Flying Circus1, who have previously explained — in a single three-minute children's show — how to play the flute, split the atom, construct box girder bridges, and irrigate the Sahara to make vast new areas cultivatable. For many Virginia men, creating a divorce settlement agreement may seem as elusive as those ...
She's only 20 but was placing first and second more than seven years ago, and she's a rising star in NASCAR. Maddy Ryan Mulligan is racing to break records and become to the first female race car driver to win the Daytona 500. The Firm For Men is immensely proud to be a sponsor of this young dynamo and her ...
More than 168,400 special needs children were enrolled in Virginia's public schools in 2016, according to the Virginia Department of Education. For 2013 (the most recently available year) Virginia recorded over 29,400 divorces. Those two typical statistics intersect far more often than most people realize. If you are contemplating a divorce and you are the father of a special needs child, ...
The legal word "consent" is often associated with intimate matters like sex, statutory rape and marriage. It also extends, though, to the often-inevitable outcome of sex: pregnancy. Women in Virginia have powerful rights to give or deny consent to the fathers of their unborn children, such as consent to attend prenatal appointments, consent to hear information from their obstetricians, and ...
The NBA has brought us a pulse-pounding history of slam-dunk wins, but for Virginia Dads, one slam dunk may turn you into Paul Pierce when Ron Artest pulled his pants down. Thinking you can stop paying child support when your kid turns 18? Not so fast. The “Age of Majority” … Not a Slam Dunk Bar room "lawyers" (your buddies who ...
Collegiate sports conferences attract a lot of fans, many advertisers, and real zeal around college stadiums, gymnasiums and courts. Sports conferences can be huge, as with the 15 powerhouses in the NCAA Atlantic Coast Conference, including our own mighty University of Virginia. Then again, some conferences are very, very small. Witness the Intercollegiate Fencing Conference of Southern California, which comprises a paper-thin seven ...
