Attorney-client privilege really exists. It is not to be taken lightly either by members of the legal profession or their clients. You hear the phrase bandied about on TV shows, or you read it in a Scott Turow novel. Yet it often overshadows a more vital concept that seldom makes its way into popular fiction, television and movies. Lawyer confidentiality, ...
Discovery is in Chantilly, Virginia. The Space Transportation System (STS) orbiter Discovery has an honored place at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center, right here in Virginia. It is a big, beautiful piece of flown space hardware, a veteran of 39 trips into the cold emptiness of outer space. An understandable source of pride for all Virginians, this Discovery is a far ...
In Virginia, parents can be awarded joint legal custody, joint physical custody, or a combination of the two. In joint legal custody, the responsibility for the care and supervision of the child is shared equally between the two parents, and both are able to make important decisions regarding the child. Parents can share joint legal custody, even when the primary ...
Divorce is never a walk in the park. It frequently demands much more than checking some boxes, filing a few documents, and Voilà, you're free. A Legal Zoom divorce may work for some couples—those who have been married for a short time, have no children, no assets, do not need alimony, and agree on everything, including the divorce, may fit ...
We must all feel a certain pity for poor Antonio C., 99 years young and happily married to 96-year-old Rosa C., for 77 years. The Italian couple’s blissful marriage, according to the New York Daily News,1 crashed on the rough rocks of divorce when Antonio discovered Rosa’s love letters (not to him) from the 1940s. Whatever the laws in Italy, ...
Psychologists warn against the human tendency to create “the other,” as in dehumanizing an opponent1. Perhaps the first and best piece of advice we can offer our male clients preparing for custody trials is to remember your opposition is the mother of your children. Any fight for your children begins with respecting yourself, your children, and your ex-wife. 1: Prepare to ...
In the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera1, 15 adults squeeze into an ocean liner’s cabin. Besides the four Marx Brothers, two chamber maids, a manicurist, ship’s engineer and assistant, a woman with a mop, four waiters and a fellow passenger crowd into a space slightly bigger than a walk-in closet. Watch it. It is instructional for the ...
In Virginia, the only venue willing to entertain Irreconcilable Differences1 might be the Beach Movie Bistro in Virginia Beach. This is because, popular as the little legal phrase is, it has no place in Virginia courtrooms. In this great state, you get divorced for either fault grounds, or no fault grounds. That's right ... you cannot claim “irreconcilable differences.” Let’s ...
Virginia native, former Miss Virginia and 2012 Miss United States, Brittany Nicole Poteet is back in the news1, but not in a way any beauty pageant winner wants. For the third time in six years, she is contending with charges of domestic violence. Whether in her native Virginia or her adopted home in Australia, Poteet seems to have difficulty controlling ...
