What is a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)?
Audi's four-wheel drive system, the Quattro®, is a great automotive innovation, but it's no QDRO. They are both nearly identical in pronunciation, but a QDRO has ...
How to Calculate Spousal Support in Virginia
Virginia’s Circuit Courts are no different from you or I; if they do not have to reinvent the wheel, and can get along by borrowing someone ...
Can I Draft My Own Separation Agreement?
The world’s oldest recovered message in a bottle1 was awash in the sea for more than a century. It was (eventually) safely delivered to the sender’s ...
I Can’t Afford a Divorce Attorney. What are My Options?
A lot of people and things have budgets. Households have budgets; nations have budgets; even the earth has an energy budget. From budgets come options we ...
What is a Prenuptial Agreement & What Is It For?
For our purposes, a “prenuptial agreement” is identical to a “premarital agreement,” which is the legal expression found in the Code of Virginia. In fact, the ...
What is Contempt of Court in Family Law?
As that great legal scholar, Basil, once said, “No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have, and I think you're a slimy, ...
5 Ways to Protect Your Business from a Bad Marriage
Divorce-proofing any part of your life is likely not something that was on the table prior to your joint nuptials, but saving your business in the ...
Military Divorce and The ABCs of the USFSPA
For anyone in our nation’s military services, acronyms are a fact of life. From Weapon Of Magnesium, Battalion, Anti-Tank — aka WOMBAT — to Man-Portable Air-Defense ...
4 Easy-to-follow Tips for Improving Your Relationship with Your Ex
Dear Jason, My ex-wife was so uncaring about my pain from our separation and divorce, I could not bear to go home so I spent the ...