Our modern society depends on numbers. We look for reassurance in numbers (tidy bank balance?), in planning (what are the dates of my vacation?), and choosing our battles. Should a Virginia Dad try to win sole custody of his children? How often do fathers get sole custody in Virginia? What do the numbers tell us? What does experience tell us ...
Because we live in the here and now, we tend to think marriage now is what marriage has always been. That is not true, as pointed out in a Huffington Post article that reviews marriage historically. For much of humanity's time on earth, marriage was a business arrangement; make kids, find food, acquire wealth. Once you free yourself from thinking ...
In recent months we’ve heard a lot about living in a “post-fact” America. False news, internet rumor and urban legends have run through our conversations and tainted our understanding of real events. This is also true with Virginia divorces. These six “facts” about divorce in Virginia are often confused with the truth; they are anything but. 1. Children Strengthen a ...
An old saying goes, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” The same is true with paying for a divorce: if you think getting divorced is expensive, consider how much higher the cost—emotionally, mentally and financially—of staying together might be. Some people are just not suited for each other, and if you have children in the relationship, you can ...
Hêphaistos was bitter and angry, and that was even before hearing the bad news about his wife, Aphrodite. She was getting down with—of all people—Hêphaistos’ brother, Ares. Not only was she an adulteress, she also gave birth to several children by Ares, all while married to sad, overstressed Hêphaistos. So Hêphaistos—probably more familiar to most people under his Latinized name, Hephaestus—divorced her. ...
Adultery is grounds for a fault divorce in Virginia. This is the blunt and legal truth. It is only the first, and possibly least distasteful, of eight grounds for divorce. Cheating in a Virginia marriage is cause enough for the aggrieved party to seek (and usually get) a divorce. Adultery must be proved, and, like discounts and most things legal, ...