Childhood taunts seem to be in the air these days. "I know you are but what am I?" "I'm rubber and you're glue; your words bounce off me and stick to you." If you find your ex-wife stooping to the level of a schoolyard bully in dealing with parenting time, try these four solutions. It’s Not “Just a Threat” In a ...
You have been ordered by a Virginia court to undergo drug testing related to your child custody case. Terrified, you comply. And then you have to hope. You have to hope that an owner of the testing laboratory dealing with your test does not alter or forge your results. Hey, it happens! Well, It’s Not Alabama You live in Virginia, a ...
Virginians sure have some peculiar ideas about how life works. For example, say a man wanted to attack his wife and a man with a knife. Where is the worst possible place to commit such an awful crime? How about outside a courthouse? You know, like a big government building overflowing with police officers. The Virginian-Pilot reports that a Chesapeake man with poor decision-making ...
If you signed a separation agreement under duress, you don’t want to miss this. If you’re unsure what "duress" means, just ask Jared and Lindsay Rowley, who entered into an oral contract with Jesse Dimmick not to turn him over to the police. According to the American Bar Association, Dimmick and the Rowleys sealed their oral agreement upon the event of Dimmick ...
The common cuckoo bird engages in a brutal behavior scientists call brood parasitism1. The female cuckoo lays her eggs in other birds' nests. Quick-hatching cuckoo chicks hatch before their nestmates. They push the other bird eggs out of the nest to the ground below, leaving the foster bird mom to feed only the cuckoo. From the cuckoo we get the ...
The words are deliberately menacing: "... authority to punish as contempt of court any willful failure of a party to comply with the provisions of the order ..." Virginia Code does not cut parents any slack in court orders, even when the subject is the fickle heart of a tween or teen. What could happen to you if your child ...
You and your child's mother decide to part ways. What becomes of your child? Without a court order, you would think you are adrift, unmoored to any child custody laws in Virginia, free to do as you please. Perhaps you and the child's mother would think you can do what you wish, since you never took the matter to a Virginia ...
The Centers for Disease Control tells us that, in 2017, 34.6 percent of Virginia's births were to unmarried mothers. The Old Dominion ranks 39th for births to unmarried mothers1. Sometimes, those single Virginia mothers feel compelled to place their children up for adoption. Some Virginia men choose to step up and take responsibility for the children they sired, by contesting ...
Most Virginia men are honorable. They take responsibility for the children they sire, either in or out of marriage. Part of that responsibility includes costs for medical care. After a divorce, for example, you may agree to cover a large portion — even the majority — of medical bills for your child. It is noble. It is the right thing to do. ...