Do you know your precise net worth? Probably not. After completing a financial affidavit, though, you will know how much you own, how much you owe, and how much you are worth. For good or bad, your soon-to-be-ex-wife will know all that, too. A financial affidavit is a legal tool used during discovery so the court overseeing your divorce has ...
Chris Blewitt can do nothing about the name he carries, but that has not stopped football fans from snickering over the Chicago Bears' newly signed kicker. At least, though, the guy on whose foot many a future Bears' win may depend has a real name, unfortunate as it may be. Fraudulent information, like a fake name (spies and criminals prefer the term "alias") ...
The treadmill may be both a metaphor for undesirable work and an actual exercise tool for the 21st century, but at one time is was very real and very bad. According to Smithsonian magazine, “Its inventor, English engineer Sir William Cubitt, thought the labor would help ‘reform stubborn and idle convicts.’” Sometimes the aftereffects of divorce can make a Virginia man feel ...
The Bunny Hutch is a fine Virginia Beach spot to take the little ones to meet adorable animals. We support the fine work its conservation wing does. The Bunny Hutch is not, though, the sort of place anyone feels compelled to return to week after week. Yes, it's the home of Junior, "America's Biggest Bunny," but frequent visits could result in ...
Perhaps you and your wife woke up after a three-day honeymoon at Busch Gardens and realized you hardly know each other. Perhaps you both came to the conclusion, after a few years of earnestly trying, that you are simply not right for each other. No hard feelings, no bruised egos — you are both just ready to move on. You may ...
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 ...
How good are you at negotiating? Most people tend to exaggerate their own negotiating abilities, from presidents on down to next door neighbors. In getting to an equitable (we didn't say equal) divorce settlement, negotiating is key. Equitable Versus Equal Imagine you and your wife have three children. Imagine you are all staring at five cookie jars tucked away on top ...
Adults have the exam dream so often, its shorthand is recognizable with just those words: “the exam dream.” In the exam dream, you wake to find you are back in high school and confronting a final exam for which you are completely unprepared. Maybe the subject is astrophysics, or calculus, or ... perhaps it is a child custody evaluation, and it's ...
Antonio found his wife's old love letters. Unfortunately for his wife Rosa, she had not written the amorous notes to Antonio, but to her lover. Antonio sued for divorce. At the time, says Vintage News1, Antonio was 99, Rosa was 96, the affair had taken place 60 years earlier, and the couple had been married for 77 years. Antonio's and Rosa's ...