If you remember nothing else about Virginia law, remember this: uncontested is not the same as pleading no contest. If you find yourself having to plead no contest, you are amid criminal proceedings, and you are on the losing side. If you and your departing spouse pursue an uncontested divorce, you both may end up on the winning side. Jump ...
Virginia Beach’s award from the Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s longest stretch of pleasure beach (at 38 miles) deserves to be publicly trumpeted. Other records in the Commonwealth may also be public but really are better left alone, like divorce records and other legal proceedings. Jump to a Section Are Divorce Records Public in Virginia? Where is ...
Iurisperiti et eorum lingua Latina! Lawyers and their Latin—where you might say “cut that out,” lawyers will assert an estoppel. We could give a dozen examples but check out “pendente lite” orders. Uh, that would be temporary orders in divorce, child custody, and parent visitation, thankyouverymuch. Jump to a Section Why a Temporary Order? What Does a Temporary Order Do? ...
Running away from home in Virginia is two things: a rite of passage for children and a perfectly legal act. As the City of Virginia Beach explains on their Runaway Children web page, the police do not investigate a runaway teen as a criminal. That may be small comfort when your teenager shows up at your doorstep when you are ...
We have all witnessed the tawdry spectacle of brutal, nasty, embarrassing Hollywood divorces like Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, or Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Yet even the most benign, quiet Virginia divorce can have its ugly moments. Rather than reveal any weird personal habits, both parties must provide financial disclosures. Jump to a Section Financial Disclosures in Virginia Divorce ...
Cursive handwriting is a lost art. That is why most of us have no idea what “cross the T’s and dot the I’s” originally meant. The connected letters of cursive required the writer to return to the completed word to, literally, cross the ascending t and place a dot over every i. At any rate, with divorce, every attorney knows ...
What can you get done in 60 days? In Virginia, you have to get a state driver’s license within 60 days of moving into the Commonwealth. In Great Britain, you can have two Prime Ministers in less than 60 days. You can also while away 60 days in jail in Virginia for violating a protective order—say, for domestic violence. Jump ...
Virginia’s divorce proceedings unfold in Circuit Courts. When settling issues of child custody, parenting time schedules, and child support, the Commonwealth’s network of Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Courts (JDRDC) oversees matters. Working with your family law attorney, you can successfully navigate the murky waters of legal custody in Virginia. Jump to a Section Two Primary Types of Custody Sole, ...
Outer Mongolia sounds … remote. Still, a recent federal jobs listing showed a dozen opportunities for a posting in Mongolia. Overseas postings are not exclusively military; FederalJobs.net says more than 45,000 Americans serve overseas in the state department, military postings, and in teaching jobs. Some of them, surely, want to divorce. But how? Non-Military Divorce Only one of the two ...