How Does Child Support Work if the Parents Live in Different States?
You think you live in Virginia and the other parent of your kids thinks she or he lives in South Carolina. You’re wrong: you both live ...
Who Has Custody of a Child If The Parents Aren’t Married?
Are you a glass-half-full or a glass-half-empty person? We ask because everyone has heard that old chestnut, “Half of all marriages end in divorce.” Well, that ...
DSS’s Family Engagement Services
"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." Will Rogers said that. It's funny, it's a popular opinion even nine decades or so after he ...
Can a Child Support Order be in Multiple States?
A nation's children are its future. From that simple idea, we get laws that protect children above all, as in Virginia's "best interest of the child" ...
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) & Child Support
For anyone struggling to keep home and hearth together, the recent “news” and other sources that poverty affects decision-making is no news at all. Virginians who ...
What is Considered an Unstable or Unsafe Household?
To make nitroglycerin without blowing yourself up, take a tip from Alfred Nobel (yes, that Nobel, of the Nobel Prizes). He invented dynamite but also devised ...
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 ...
I Signed the Birth Certificate, Then Found Out I’m Not the Father. What’s Next?
Dwayne Parsons knows what paternity fraud feels like. He will go on knowing for the next 1,913 years, after a Chester, Virginia judge ordered him to ...
What are the Warning Signs of Child Abuse?
You and your wife divorced several years ago. She has sole custody of Diane and Diego, who are now ages 7 and 11. Diego, during one ...