Virginia Dads often forget, in their understandable shock and anger toward their ex-wives, that child support payments are not intended to keep the ex-wife floating in crème de menthe mints and caviar. A Virginia Circuit Court judge ordered child support payments to benefit your children, not you or your ex-wife, so you have a responsibility to aid your child. If ...
Justice is blind in sculptor Raymond Kaskey’s 1994 piece1 in front of the Albert V Bryan Federal District Courthouse in Alexandria. Justice is also a woman. Her sex is owed to her ancient history, say experts quoted in the New York Times2, with the Egyptian goddess Maat weighing humans’ souls on her scales. Her blindfold is a more recent addition, ...
Chessie the Chesapeake Bay sea monster probably does not exist. Snallygasters and Bigfoot may or may not exist in Virginia; the odds are against either of them, despite the hype provided by sites like Mysterious Universe1. One other mythical Virginia fantasy is the legal separation. In Virginia, you cannot claim “legal separation;” you can be separated, or you can be ...
Memory is an elusive thing. It can slip away at the worst possible times. It can re-emerge later, to smack you in the head: you forgot to tell your family law attorney something important. Something really, really important. Or, perhaps, you outright lied to your attorney. Now what do you do? Keep the Roles Straight In Virginia’s adversarial legal system, ...
In 2000 — the latest year data are available from the U.S. Census — 6.4 percent of Virginia’s homes were mobile homes. The 185,282 manufactured homes are a sharp increase over the number of such homes in 1950, when 4,508 mobile homes accounted for only 0.5 percent of our Commonwealth’s housing. We are a mobile culture; we move around a ...
From 13 October 1775 to today, the U.S. Navy has defended the seas, patrolled hostile waters, and served as the principal hauler of all the other branches—their equipment, their weapons, and their personnel. Its official website tallies 325,673 active duty men and women serving on, above, next to, and under the water. Some of those Navy men, like men anywhere, ...
Having your home vandalized is heartbreaking, threatening, and frightening. It is made all the worse if you suspect your spouse is responsible for the vandalism. How could this happen? If she is living in your marital home during your separation, and the home is to be sold as part of the property settlement agreement, she may think this one last ...
Drug and alcohol abuse have legal consequences that affect wide swaths of society, but society’s attitudes toward chemical dependency are changing. What was once a moral failing may now be considered a medical or mental illness. The law, though, is playing catch up with these attitudes. If your divorce is complicated by substance abuse, you need strong legal help. Hate ...
Sometimes we’re not even sure whether we are proudly strutting our Latin or simply flashing back to Mrs. McPamashamspam’s high school geometry class, but the phrase “quod erat demonstrandum” has been floating around in our heads for days now. This is probably because some legal concepts require a sort of orderly proof, a multi-step system, to explain. One example of ...