Can Child Support Be Reduced if My Ex Gets Married or Remarried?
The 2018 Chevy Bolt EV incorporated two revolutionary changes over the 2017 model: a heated steering wheel and no map pocket. For a market sector that ...
Can Text Messages Be Used as Evidence in Family Law Court?
Virginia’s laws of evidence are described and organized in great detail in the Rules of Supreme Court of Virginia (616 pages and no pictures!). Thumb through ...
Parental Alienation & What You Can Do If You’re Suffering from It
Sometimes we are glib. Sometimes we are silly, or outrageous. With a topic like parental alienation, we see no room for silliness; too many Virginia men ...
My Wife Kicked Me Out. Can She Do That?!
You claim your wife kicked you out of your own home; we say she evicted you, and what she did by evicting you is far stronger ...
Can I Get More Than 50% of the Equity in My House When I Divorce?
Ah, marriage! As James Joyce once said in his work, Ulysses, “What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is my own.” If your marriage started off ...
Do Verbal Agreements Count for Custody & Visitation?
The character Roger “Verbal” Kint in Usual Suspects is a charade, disguising the evil genius of (spoiler alert) Keyser Söze in the same body. He is ...
How Do Virginia Courts Decide Parenting Time?
Sometimes treasures hide in plain sight. What was true of Edgar Allen Poe’s Purloined Letter (you can read it courtesy of the University of Virginia)1 held ...
Divorcing as the Breadwinner? File in 2018 to Miss Huge Tax Changes.
You may argue the political disingenuousness of the name of the recently passed tax law, “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” depending on whether or not you ...
Can My Child Be Put Up for Adoption Without My Permission?
Today’s Latin Lingo goes out to all those surprised Virginia Dads out there: Ignorantia Juris Non Excusat, which roughly translates to “Ignorance of the law is ...