Raccoon tacos are one of the easiest recipes you can follow to put the masked Virginian critters to good use. And as raccoon tacos indicate, “easiest” is not always ideal. In the case of Virginia divorces, though, the easiest divorce may also be the best fit for most Virginia men: the uncontested, no-fault divorce. Jump to a Section The Fastest ...
The phrase resonates on playgrounds: “I know you are but what am I?” This childish taunt grows up to become “whataboutism” in politics and “recrimination” in a Virginia divorce. The concept behind all three is the same: accusing your accuser of the same or worse behavior. Jump to a Section Divorce 101 Virginia Divorce Defenses Recrimination Is Recrimination Effective? Divorce ...
A bedrock of Virginia law is intent. What someone intends is as important as what someone does. It is dressed up with a Latin phrase: mens rea. Mens rea refers to the defendant’s state of mind. It describes the mental condition that the prosecution must prove a defendant had when committing a crime. Desertion in Virginia law very much hinges ...
The greatest chess match ever played is said by most experts to be the 1999 game pitting Garry Kasparov against Veselin Topalov. If you worry that a divorce is like a chess match, you may think you need to plan five, or ten, or 20 moves ahead. So, who should make the first move? When it Come to Divorce, is ...
We’ve mentioned the Australian Pitch Drop Experiment before, related to recordkeeping. We mention it again because the nine drops of pitch1 (a tar-like substance) that have fallen from the laboratory funnel since 1927 may seem to be moving faster than your Virginia divorce. Here’s what you can do to speed that up. The divorce, not the pitch. How Long Does ...
Montgomery Gentry wrote a song about it. “I’ll Keep the Kids” tells of the whole package: separation, divorce, child custody. But what happens outside of a Nashville recording studio, out here in the real world, when your wife up and leaves, and you have the house, the dog, and the kids to care for? This Little Thing We Like to ...
The phrase, “legal separation” is a Virginia myth on par with the Richmond Vampire. Like the Vampire, it seems never to die, it changes over time, and it has a tiny kernel of truth at its core. First of All, There’s No Such Thing Nothing in Virginia law enshrines “legal separation” as a concept. In Virginia, you are either: ...
Virginia does not have rigid guidelines for spousal support the way it does for child support. The laws are written to provide a judge wide discretion in deciding, first, who pays whom and, second, how much is paid. Spousal Support Laws The Code of Virginia includes a section, § 20-107.1, that outlines how a Circuit Court judge may decide spousal support. ...
In these esteemed pages we have discussed books, movies, law, history, Latin, food, and Dinosaurland. Yet, to our memory, we have not touched upon one of the foundation stones of our modern civilization: Star Trek. Today, we present the legal equivalent of Star Trek’s Corbomite Maneuver1 (Never heard of it? Hang in there!). Today, we address constructive desertion in Virginia ...